10/21 Pretty lady growing ugly, spite and anger spoiling pretty features. Dark young man no longer loving. Dark young man hurling bitter words at pretty lady--hurling, maybe, things more heavy. Dark young man and pretty lady listening approvingly to comic singer, having both discovered: "That's what it's like when you're married." My friend H.G.Wells wrote a book, "The Island of Dr.Moreau." I read it in MS. one winter evening in a lonely country house upon the hills, wind screaming to wind in the dark without. |