On June 28th Wynne wrote:
What an amazing amount of money is spent on amusements. People are for ever denouncing “this extravagant era” but I fancy it was ever thus since Eve went out shopping to buy fresh leaves. But £1000 on a dress! What one does hate is the slaughter of 450 Birds of Paradise which go to the making up of it. Fancy too insuring our legs! and to think I have never even heard of Mlle Mistinguett! In the back of beyond our world does not include these items!
