Monday, 17 March

F.T. Cheng invited us to have lunch at the Athenaeum Club Annex. The club is the most difficult to enter in Britain, because only those with high academic standing can join. The entry fee is some £600, and the annual fee is over £200. Originally it was a male only club, but the auxiliary restaurant could serve members’ wives, and it only allowed entry with wives. The building was formerly the house of Gladstone, the famous Prime Minister of the Liberal Party, therefore I asked Kitty and Zhongxiong to come in order to widen their horizons. The food was far inferior than before the war. We intended to visit other places together but in the car Kitty did not feel very well, so we returned home for a rest. Mr. F.T. Cheng and his wife came with us.

In the evening, we went to the Palace Theatre in Chelsea to watch an opera.  It was quite bad.