Dear Diary

I am so depressed. Daniel, though perfectly chatty, friendly, even flirty all week, has given me no hint as to what is going on between us, as though it is perfectly normal to sleep with one of your colleagues and just leave it at that. Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture. I have major trauma every time he disappears for lunch or puts his coat on to go at end of day: to where? with whom? whom?

Perpetua seems to have managed to dump all her work on to me and spends the entire time in full telephonic auto-witter to Arabella or Piggy, discussing the half-million-pound Fulham flat she's about to buy with Hugo. 'Yars. No. Yars. No, I quite agree. But the question is: Does one want to pay another thirty grand for a fourth bedroom?'

At 4:15 on Friday evening Sharon rang me in the office. 'Are you coming out with me and Jude tomorrow?'

'Er . . . ' I silently panicked, thinking, surely Daniel will ask to see me this weekend before he leaves the office?

'Call me if he doesn't ask,' said Shazzer drily after a pause.
At 5:45 saw Daniel with his coat on heading out of the door. My traumatized expression must have shamed even him because he smiled shiftily, nodded at the computer screen and shot out. Sure enough, Message Pending was flashing. I pressed RMS. It said:

Message Jones,
Have a good weekend. Pip pip. Cleave

Miserably, I picked up the phone and dialed Sharon.
'What time are we meeting tomorrow?' I mumbled sheepishly.
'Eight-thirty. Cafe Rouge. Don't worry, we love you. Tell him to bugger off from me. Emotional fuckwit.'

2 a.m. Argor sworeal brilleve with Shazzan Jude. Dun stupid care about Daniel stupid prat. Feel sicky though. Oops

Social Context
1) What class do you associate with the names Arabella, Piggy, Hugo, and Perpetua. 
2) What does the nickname ‘Shazzer’ suggest about Sharon’s character? 
3) Look at the way Bridget records Perpetua’s phone conversation (lines 8-9). What does this show use about Perpetua’s social class?  
4) What do you think the expression ‘Pip pip’ (line 19) means? What class would you associate it with? 
5) Do you think Daniel’s email demonstrates a professional working relationship?  Why? Why not? 

Language

1) What does the following phrase mean? “[she] spends the entire time in full telephonic auto-witter”?  Think back to the definition of ‘witter’.
2) Which adjective does she use for emphasis in this phrase? 
3) What does the use of the preposition ‘in’ suggest?
4) How does Fielding show that Bridget is drunk on Saturday night? Can you ‘translate’ her drunken writing? (Drunk English  English) 
5) How does Fielding signal the presence of an email?