she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

So the English gentleman’s name is Mr. Gerald Lamson as those who have
read his novels would know. And he also sent me some of his own novels
and they all seem to be about middle age English gentlemen who live in
the country over in London and seem to ride bicycles, which seems quite
different from America, except at Palm Beach. So I told Mr. Lamson how
I write down all of my thoughts and he said he knew I had something to
me from the first minute he saw me and when we become better acquainted
I am going to let him read my diary. I mean I even told Mr. Eisman
about him and he is quite pleased. Because of course Mr. Lamson is
quite famous and it seems Mr. Eisman has read all of his novels going
to and fro on the trains and Mr. Eisman is always anxious to meet
famous people and take them to the Ritz to dinner on Saturday night.
But of course I did not tell Mr. Eisman that I am really getting quite
a little crush on Mr. Lamson, which I really believe I am, but Mr.
Eisman thinks my interest in him is more literary.

March 30th:
At last Mr. Eisman has left on the 20th Century and I must say I am
quite fatigued and a little rest will be quite welcome. I mean I do not
mind staying out late every night if I dance, but Mr. Eisman is really
not such a good dancer so most of the time we just sit and drink some
champagne or have a bite to eat and of course I do not dance with
anyone else when I am out with Mr. Eisman. But Mr. Eisman and Gerry, as
Mr. Lamson wants me to call him, became quite good friends and we had
several evenings, all three together. So now that Mr. Eisman is out of
town at last, Gerry and I are going out together this evening and Gerry
said not to dress up, because Gerry seems to like me more for my soul.
So I really had to tell Gerry that if all the gentlemen were like he
seems to be, Madame Frances’ whole dress making establishment would
have to go out of business. But Gerry does not like a girl to be
nothing else but a doll, but he likes her to bring in her husband’s
slippers every evening and make him forget what he has gone through.

But before Mr. Eisman went to Chicago he told me that he is going to
Paris this summer on professional business and I think he intends to
present me with a trip to Paris as he says there is nothing so
educational as traveling. I mean it did worlds of good to Dorothy when

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