_July 28th._--This was an excessively rainy day; we found ten
toadstools in Catherine's room. There were several people dining here;
there were fires in the rooms, which everybody was glad to get near. It
was wet, disagreeable weather. We were all waiting eagerly to go home;
the days seemed like weeks. To make them appear shorter, I made a list
of all the days till the time we were to go home, and I scratched out
one each day. This day was Nannette's fête; she went to a Dutch frow (a
German woman), who gave her a nosegay.