This book covers the period from 1933 to 1940, which was a time of extensive travel and profound personal change. Her entries, rapidly written, usually at night when propped up in bed, were sometimes daily and sometimes sporadic accounts of events, sights, sensations and feelings. These are glimpses of her social life, her family, her friends; there are detailed records of her trips and the private record of the heart of a woman – a woman who never overtly rejects the standards and expectations placed upon her, but quietly begins to construct her own personal values.