Nov 29. Wed. [29 November 1899] Left London at 11 and crossed by Calais. It was a P&O day and the boat was crowded with Anglo Indians, talking of Home with a would be native air and turning back to discuss people in Rangoon [Yangon] and on the frontier, births, marriages and deaths in forgotten corners of the globe. I got put into the P&O train at Paris by mistake and was turned out by 2 irate old Generals who swept me and my porter before turn[?] in an irresistible assault! The result was that when I was finally established in a compartment all to myself, it was too late for lunch and I had to buy a luncheon basket instead. Slept most of the way to Paris. Coffee at Amiens when I saw Major Forster and fled. Paris 7.35, late, and just time to change trains. Dinner on the way to the Gare de Lyon. Train full, a dull little woman in my compartment. Next door a big Englishman, very sick, with a nurse.