Excerpt from Hostess Diary: Jan 1942-Dec. 1942 We will long remember a dinner party held in our old dining room during this past week. We do not know the name of the party; we did not Speak to them yet we felt that the dinner was a memorable occasion for the participants and not one oi a happy nature. Four people sat at a table before tne open fire and as we passed through the room we hardly glanced in their direction. No words were Spoken, yet in some strange way we were drawn to that particular table. Passing hurriedly, we saw a beautiful woman, young but with white hair her head bowed slightly as she Sipped hot soup. She sat opposite a tall, straight handsome young man. Her son. The woman's eyes were filled with tears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.