At work as usual. Directors’ meeting. No dictated letters off Mr Lawson. Busy all day. The army open again for clerks. I thought about joining. Decided to put advert in the Echo for Father. Hilda & baby went away in the morning. Finished reading “The Manxman”¹.

1. The Manxman: See 21 December 1914, The Manxman and Arthur Linfoot’s Library. ↩