I've been thinking a good deal about the conversation with Helga yesterday, and her notes. I am sure I could never be as detail-oriented as Helga, nor capture so much in such brief meetings, but perhaps she's right that in order to have a successful season one must take special care to note the men one meets and remember some things about them.

It would be wholly inappropriate, I think, were I to have a book like Helga's, particularly since I'm not yet out and shouldn't be meeting any men yet, but perhaps to better prepare myself for May I might make some notes in the corner of my sketchbook... surely no one would care to look at a silly young girl's sketchbook, and no one will think a second thought about my carrying it around and scribbling things down in it. I could not undertake to keep a secret notebook as Helga has, particularly not while I'm staying with the Scamanders... and I dare not share my thoughts with Helga, for beside her own notes they would look so terribly inadequate... and suppose we disagreed about something? I should never get over it.

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