NEHRU SLEPT on a bed three feet from mine. He said that noises had disturbed him during the night. I never hear any noises. He told me he had come back last night at 9:15 from chatting with some friends in the ashram and thought he would spend the evening talking to me. But he found me sound asleep.
At six this morning Gandhi, surrounded by the usual group of eight or ten in white, went out for his usual walk. It is his silent day. He saw me on the porch and raised his arm high above his head in greeting. I spent the morning typing and talking to Nehru.
In the afternoon, Aryanaikam came over. He has studied with Dewey and Thorndike at Columbia University and took degrees at Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Oxford. He brought me a clean suit of white homespun khadi and also sandals, for he had noticed that the sand and gravel of Sevagram were wearing holes in my bedroom slip-
