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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918

1918-06-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

dinner tonight was a flat failure.  I had only forty-five minutes in which to get it between turns of dealing with despatches.  Forty-five minutes is too short a time in which to get a meal in France even under favorable conditions, and the situation here is complicated by the fact that the only two hotels have too many customers and too few waiters.  After waiting thirty minutes I finally got some soup and a small piece of meat with mushroom sauce.  It was a sad come-down from the exquisite sort of dinner I had grown accustomed to in the last three months under Martine's care.
You've made another killing young woman. Madame Ploquet demanded this evening to whom was the jolie femme on the mantel.  Hartzell saved me the embarassment of having to admit claim by telling her the picture was of Madame Reynolds. She declared be-

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dinner tonight was a flat failure. I had only forty-five minutes in which to get it between turns of dealing with despatches. Forty-five minutes is too short a time in which to get a meal in France even under favorable conditions, and the situation here is complicated by the fact that the only two hotels have too many customers and too few waiters. After waiting thirty minutes I finally got some soup and a small piece of meat with mushroom sauce. It was a sad come-down from the exquisite sort of dinner I had grown accustomed to in the last three months under Martine's care. You've made another killing young woman. Madame Ploquet demanded this evening to whom was the jolie femme on the mantel. Hartzell saved me the embarassment of having to admit claim by telling her the picture was of Madame Reynolds. She declared be-