Monday, October 20:
Domestic upsets; the new manservant has to be dismissed. R. does not understand that servants here do not become attached to him. He works. I went for a walk with the children. Attempt to design a hat for myself from the dreadful fashions, which really seem to have been created just for disreputable women.
No reading in the evening, but a Haydn symphony in D played as a piano duet with R., great delight in it.