1920 need not get up. Stayed until about ½ past 6/ Did not like the look of the fire when I left. Did not think it was under control. About 7.10 we noticed (Charles got up at 7) the Smoke was much worse. I went down again and the south wall fell out (part of it). Just after I got down and Bart Wright's store was all gone too. Charles came down at 8. We went on to the office and then came home to breakfast which we finished about 10.30. I went down at 11 to get Meat for dinner & water was still being played in building which is a complete wrecked and sheeted in ice. Mrs. Oliver & Mrs. Wesley Durst called. Wrote to Dorothy and Jean Maxwell. Rhena Campbell was to come in afternoon for Music Examination but decided to write from 7 to 10 so she arrived at 7. She was peeved because she could not write her Exam at home and was not angelic at all. I gave her the drawing room and left her to herself. She had forgotten to bring her

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