1st November 1934

Nurse appears at 6.30 to get her patient ready. Mummy reads a book to Marion until the stretcher is rolled up to door. Baby is delighted at being taken for a ride, but screams and fights off anaesthetic. Mummy holds her until she is asleep. I wait in hall until operation is over and went upstairs quickly to get Bluebell whom she wanted to have before she went into operating room. Sister Minna and I take her back to her room in lift. Half an hour later she came to with paroxysms of crying and kicking her legs. Calmed down when Mummy, who knelt for hours at her bedside, spoke gently to her. Auntie Molly reached hospital at 10 o'clock, at same time as Daddy. Nothing was given to her to either eat or drink.