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given by Mrs Nix and Mrs Phillips, I didn't care for it as the music was so bad. It got rather rowdy towards
the end. In the afternoon I went out to see the Shaikh & tackled him about going to England. He said he had
spoken of it to Loch, but nothing definite, & we discussed it for some time, he really does not know his own
mind, he says that the King, when he went before, invited him to come again and therefore he felt that he
ought to and this year was suitable owing to the Jubilee, he talked about ways of travelling, expense and
difficulty of preveneting lots of people going with him, and also a long history of how last time he took no
present and therefore he ought to take one now and how Shaika Ayesha didn't like the clothse she was made
to wear etc etc. he really can't make up his own mind. M & her mother went out in the launch & went
around to where the RAF flying boats are anchored. The RAF are doing night manoeuvres here & fly every
night for an hour or two. Very noisy.

Friday [15th February]