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room, met Edith Mariani who wanted to speak to us. So
we decided to finish the coktails first as they were ordered
before the first lot were finished more appeared. The Marianis
couldn't wait so we spoke to them for a moment and
that was sort of bad. Then more cocktails had appeared
in the meantime, and they were very strong too. We refused
as many as we were able to break away. Such a day! Having
started for us at six. We went to bed utterly tired and
rather upset about the whole thing. We may see Mr Miyaoka
tomorrow. I guess its all right but after all it wasn't our
fault, and Mr Miyaoka knew the Reporters were going to be there.

The joke is that when we said we wanted to study the
Japanese method of painting we never meant so many
lessons, and were surprised when we found Mr Hotla
had been engaged for 10 days. We have enjoyed it all and
gotten a lot out of it, but actually we could have leant [sic]
as much in half the lessons. Then Mr Miyaoka was so
buty letting people know we were here that they all called
and we are left with all the actual seeing them to us.
We expected to have to move whie the Leerline was here, and
Mr Miyaoka told them {above the line:(the friends?)}, and they didn't know we were back
until they read in the paper. Everything seemed all sort of
hopeless but is fine now. so don't worry, but I thought
maybe I'd better write you what happened. It has its
amusing side, for we never knew what is being said
when Japanese is spoken.