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the same that he said to me. He said, in effect, “Thank you for what you've done for me. Thank you for standing by. I remember how you stood by when things were so difficult. what you did in that terrible transition period. It was a great relief to know that you were there. Thank you for your friendship.” I suppose he said some version of that same thing to everybody. Some of them didn't stand by him, so he couldn't have thanked them for that, but I'm sure he said something pleasant to everybody. I saw him speaking to everybody privately, and I'm sure he had it in his mind to do that. That was after dinner when we broke up and were circulating around in the other rooms.

The dinner was a disappointment to me, because it could so easily have been distinguished, significant, important, sentimental, heart-warming, invoking loyalty, not only to an individual, but of a project that we had all been associated with in one way or another. It just missed it. I had a feeling that it needed a manager. I don't mean to say that I wanted Else Maxwell brought over to manage it, but it needed to have been managed and thought out a bit beforehand. After all, I don't give a dinner of even sixteen people, who are only chosen as dinner company because they either have a suitable rank for each other, or because I think they would be agreeable,





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