voice, will call back tomorrow to let me know which..

not a dry towel in the bathroom this morning. Cat brought a mouse into kitchen while I was drinking coffee, cat put the mouse on my foot. to call attention to her (cat's) virtue. Put mouse and cat into the garden. Cat's feelings badly hurt. Could not finish coffee. Someone called. . . wanted Grace . . . named Sylvia... who is Sylvia? Top off the ink. Grace has worked half the crossword puzzle in ink. Call from Mara, book may be Giraffe Who Would Not Eat Cereal. Will go to the zoo . . . cannot find car keys. Grace used paper shears to cut her hair, cut hair over the basin. Basin unspeakable, shears barely functioning, hair unspeakable. Told her she should have waited a day, made an appointment with M. Charles. She used a very vulgar word. Grace brought violets to apologize for this morning's language. She had the car keys... picked them up this morning by mistake. Cat ate the elastic band which had been around the violets . . .

cat had hysterics in the hall. Grace said never mind, just the full moon. She mixed me a bourbon and soda, used quinine. Cat far from well. Sylvia called again. Grace says she doesn't have the vaguest idea who Sylvia is. She cannot remember which cleaner she took my black skirt to, has lost the ticket . . .

skirt on the floor of the closet, she had not taken it to the cleaners. Call from Mara, said forget about the rabbit-giraffe, start thinking about Moll Flanders.

she put an open can of 'Puss'n Boots' in ice box last night, everything redolent of cat food, no breakfast. Cat brought partially de-feathered sparrow to will not touch remainder of Puss'n Boots.' Put cat, sparrow, and cat food into the garden. Grace can sort them out when she gets home. Cat not pleased. Neither am I. She arrived home with Betty. Cannot tolerate Betty. Mara 'phoned, suggested doing Moll Flanders in early Celtic costume, just an idea, she said. Betty broke the last actual martini glass. Cat re-discovered the sparrow and presented it to me. . .

... Sylvia called at six this morning. . . Grace would not speak to her, cannot remember who Sylvia is. Feeling unwell. Grace drank the last of the orange juice this morning...

cat balefully cozy. Subscription to the New York Times has lapsed. Betty to spend three days here, while her apartment is painted. Top off the ink bottle. Started painting the bathroom, Grace called me most unpleasant name . . .Betty is allergic to paint . . .

... she remembered who Sylvia is . . . girl at Billy's party interested in buying my painting of the death of Aristophanes. Thoroughly unwell. Grace insisted on going with Betty to see Quo Vadis tonight... I remember with painful vividness that we have seen it twice before, because Grace has hopelessly confused it with The Robe and Ben Hur. Halfway through the credits she remembered. Went to see Errol Flynn in Against All Flags ...

. . . Mara called, frightful panic, must have drawings for the Bunny by the day after tomorrow, forget Moll Flanders, it will be a rabbit definitely. Sylvia called,