Sat., 12/13 Father gave me two dollars for Christmas. Nasty horrid day. I must meet my brother so I hurried downtown and met the MacArthur family. Eleanor’s hair is more beautiful when it rains. Came home very tired and did not go to bed before twelve for I am embroidering. I never close my eyes before everyone is in. I stayed awake until 2:30 waiting to hear my father come home. My heart was in my mouth for fear something had happened. 2:30 he came.
Sun., 12/14 I am very unhappy, for after all the love and devotion I have spent in trusting and believing in my father I find he forgot us in planning with his brother a theatre supper at midnight with others not his own. I can never forgive an offense of this kind, for he never entertained mother, nor any of his own this way. Both he and his brother has lost my esteem. Went to church but I did not feel as lighthearted.
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