After a lot of ‘phoning with Leon on my part our meeting was off. He had a French friend coming. Really the man is the limit. Let me do all the talking. I was at the (empty space) in the evening. The ship was 30 minutes late and Maria was the latest in coming. Somehow she is smaller than I imagined…

This morning we went to the Office of Controlling Foreigners. It was funny. Maria had some difficulties as there were many and she was sent from one place to the other. At last I managed to persuade a man to hep us telling him that they spent only a couple of days here and didn’t want to spend so…

Fetched Maria from the Hotel, we went on the St. Margareth’s Island by bus and returned on foot. For the night we arranged to see János vitéz. Ervin took us there as it was already rather late. The open air stage was very nice, luckily the weather favourable, all the stars out but a bit on the…

This afternoon I had a letter by airpost from Maria saying she would be coming tomorrow. We resolved to take definite steps towards spring-cleaning with Erzsi, in case she stays here if I invite her.

The operation is over and everything alright for the present. The gentleman is in the next room and I went to see him in the evening. He was apparently most pleased. Father keeping well all day. I let Vin. know of the events yesterday. Let him have Maria’s address too.

Nothing all day. Letters to write. Av in the evening. Just found out how nice that blond fellow is, on my right. Never noticed him beforehand though he seemed to be making friendly advances all the time. Quite a charming fellow. The girl in front didn’t seem to like our friendly talk though poor…