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" Now you can say you have taken the Queen's 

 shilling ! " He played with Lady Rosslyn, 



Saturday, 28th September. — At ten o'clock the 

 Duke presented the long service medals to thirteen 

 Light Horse men in the garden, Major Gilmour in 

 command. It was most touching, as the Duke and 

 the Colonel were both at their last military duties. 

 He spoke so charmingly to the Colonel about it all. 

 Immediately after they started for Edinburgh to go 

 to Piershill. The Colonel was late at the station and 

 I missed him, and had to o-q alone to the orround, 

 and sit for about an hour and a half, very sadly, in 

 my fly. At last he appeared. The Tecks were 

 there with the Hopetouns, Princess Mary sitting in 

 the carriage. The Duke of Teck came and talked 

 to me and was very pleasant. The review was a 

 splendid sight, and the cheers for His Royal High- 

 ness most moving. We travelled back in the royal 

 carriage from the Waverley station. All the staff 

 came to see him off. I sat by His Royal Highness 

 and Colonel Fitz-George, who talked the whole way 

 back, and the Colonel, the Duke and Sir Francis 

 Grenfell all went to sleep. 



Sunday, 29th. — The fog was so thick that I did 

 not go to Wemyss in the afternoon or to church. 

 The whole party attended the parish church with 

 His Royal Highness, and all went to Wemyss but 

 Sir Francis Grenfell, Colonel Fitz-George and me. 

 They had to write letters. Sir Francis took me in 

 to dinner, and I sat by the Duke. Captain Maurice 

 Bourke came from the north, I think. 



