Otherwise they would not be faithful records of fact.

But they do lack colour, the magic word that brings a scene before the eye.

Perhaps that is why they are never collected and published in book form.
Now I have been wondering how to describe the wedding of Doria and Adrian.

I have recourse to Barbara.
"Why, I have the very thing for you," she says, and runs away and presently reappears with a long thing like a paper snake.

"This is a full report of the wedding.