5/11 I do not comprehend their manner of doing things, but I know a thing when it is done. And when that party ended I knew that fat Mrs.Gunderson had risen to a higher plane than she had dared to covet for the time, and that she knew who had accomplished it. Grant was not present at the party, and of the incident I told him nothing then. I wanted him to note its possible sequence first. Outside the Ninth Ward we had passed beyond our hopes. |