In the meanwhile

I had a better sort of day at the historic building. It was much better than last Sunday, and infinitely better than last Wednesday. The weather didn't come to much today, and I suppose that's why people came our way instead of buggering off down to the beach. There has been a mania of planting flowers in the garden. I hadn't the heart to tell them that the flowers would be completely over by the time of next month's event. It's really starting to give me the hump.