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our pictures without first asking her permission, and then
he had evidently said something very rude during the
conversation and Mrs Miyaoka had told him to leave,
and he had. The funny part was that Mr Hotla had invited
us, and then in the end we were left for Mrs Okura to look
after. It would have been so much better had they told us
that they wanted to entertain the Pennets and postponed
the dinner, for we could have then enjoyed the party. As it
was we were sort of left in the background, then made a
scene over, and then left to Mrs Okura. I really did feel
badly, for Mrs Miyaoka didn't even give me a chance to
say I was sorry or thank her for lunch, and as far as the
party was concerned we had practically no chance to watch
the painting or anything. The friends of Mr Hotla and Mr
Hotla himself were very nice to us and we could only
bow and say "Arigato" in way of explanation. We soon
left and when we reached the hotel invited Mrs Okura to
tea. We were in the midst of that when the others came in
and joined our table, and we had a second tea all together.
I tried to thank the Miyaokas when they left, but wasn't
too successful and we haven't seen them since, though
Mr Miyaoka sent us the newspaper clipping, a short note
and a copy of his letter to you. So I don't know what out
position is. We had invited them to lunch or dinner some
day but no definite date was set. We can't decide on talking
it over what was the matter. Mrs Miyaoka must have mis-
understood, or else doesn't approve of newspapers, for Mr Miyaoka
seemed so pleased to have the reporters taking our pictures etc.
Maybe Mrs Miyaoka also likes to run things a bit, I don't know.
After the Miyaokas left and the Okuras, we sat a minute to
talk with the Demuths. Mrs Demuth went to a shop across the
street and we waited for her to come back. Mr Pennett
brought a friend over so we conversed with Priscilla. Then
cocktails were suggested. In the meantime Pete had gone to the