We all brought our own food, and at the end there was a collection for the Canteen; but still, it was a party, and caused more excitement and gave more pleasure than anything that has happened here for a long time. Mrs Savernack had her cousin, who is a real Cabinet Minister, staying with her, and she asked us all to come in our very best clothes, because of the Cabinet Minister’s wife, who, Mrs Savernack said, is considered the Best Dressed Woman in London. You can imagine what a stir that caused but, of course, everybody was simply delighted to have the chance of wearing their very best, because there is a strong feeling down here that, unless particularly requested to do so by one’s hostess, any form of Full Fig is unpatriotic. Everybody rushed to get furs and feather boas out of moth-proof bags, and best frocks, which had been hanging between sheets for at least two years, were taken down and tenderly ironed. Two days before the party I found Lady B in the Street, breathing wistfully on the glass window of Mathilde, our dress shop.
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