To-day we went to Whistler's and sat out in a garden with high walls about it and drank tea and laughed at Rothenstein.

The last thing he said was at the Ambassadeurs when one of the students picking up a fork said, "These are the same sort of forks I have." Rothenstein said "yes, I did not know you dined here that often." Some one asked him why he wore his hair long, "To test your manners" he answered.

He is a disciple of Whistler's and Wilde's and said "yes, I defend them at the risk of their lives." Did I tell you of his saying "It is much easier to love one's family than to like them." And when some one said "Did you hear how Mrs.B.treated Mr.
C., (a man he dislikes) he said, "no, but I'm glad she did." It was lovely at Whistler's and such a contrast to the other American salon I went to last Sunday.

It was so quiet, and green and pretty and everybody was so unobtrusively polite.
Rothenstein wore my rosette and made a great sensation and I was congratulated by Whistler and Abbey and Pennell.

Rothenstein said he was going to have a doublebreasted waistcoat made with rosettes of decorations for buttons.