2/19 It was intensely associated with her. There was the writing-table, there the bookcase, the few chairs, the grey walls; some pale roses fading in a pewter vase.... The restfulness of the surroundings filled him, and feeling happier he wrote on the grey notepaper: 'DEAR MRS OTTLEY, I arrived early this morning. I started, in fact, from Paris immediately after receiving a few lines you very kindly sent me there. |