be with him in a diamond tiara. So then I told him that, even if his wife was in London, we could still be friends, because I could not help but admire him even if his wife was in London and I told him I really thought a thing like that was nearly always the result of fate. So then we went to tea at Mrs. Weeks. So Piggie arranged with Mrs. Weeks to pay her for the diamond tiara and she nearly fell dead but she will keep it a secret because no one would believe it anyway. So now I have the diamond tiara and I have to admit that everything always turns out for the best. But I promised Piggie that I would always stay in London and we would always be friendly. Because Piggie always says that I am the only one who admires him for what he really is.

April 25th:
Well, we were so busy the last days I did not have time to write in my diary because now we are on a ship that seems to be quite a small ship to be sailing to Paris and we will be at Paris this afternoon. Because it does not take nearly so long to come to Paris as it does to come to London. I mean it seems quite unusual to think that it takes 6 days to come to London and only one day to come to Paris.
So Dorothy is quite upset because she did not want to come as she is madly in love with Gerald and Gerald said that we really ought not to leave London without going to see England while we happened to be here. But I told him that if England was the same kind of a place that London seems to be, I really know to much to bother with such a place. I mean we had quite a little quarrel because Gerald showed up at the station with a bangle for Dorothy so I told Dorothy she was well rid of such a person. So Dorothy had to come with me because Mr. Eisman is paying her expenses because he wants Dorothy to be my chaperone.So the last thing in London was the garden party. I sold quite a lot of red balloons, and I sold a red balloon to Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch gentleman and tenor, for 20 pounds. Dorothy said I did not need to buy a ticket to Paris because if I could sell balloons, I could walk across the channel. Piggy does not know we have left, but I sent him a letter. I cabled Mr. Eisman saying we could learn French in Paris. Paris is intriguing, and I can't wait to see the Ritz hotel there.

April 27th:
Paris is divine. The French are divine. At customs, a French gentleman helped us for 20 francs. The Ritz Hotel is divine; sitting in the bar, seeing famous people is divine. We saw famous historical names, and it felt educational. We walked a bit and saw famous names like Coty and Cartier. We saw imitation jewelry, which Dorothy found amusing. We went back to the Ritz, where Leon helped us. Dorothy met a 

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