24th April 1938

Marion informed me she would rather not investigate her money in mines, you lose it too easily. She added, "I am learning so many big words." Last night, as she had a cold, I put a hot water bottle in her bed. It was very hot, so she asked me to take it away, then she stretched out her feet and said: "Oh, it is lovely and warm, where it is not!"
Whenever she is ill she says "Isn't it lovely to have a Mummy to take care of me and again "Oh, Mummy, what would my colds do without you."