5/18 The English of that is that for our joint _menage_ we shouldn't want your income at all; we could quite well do without it, and you would be perfectly free to use it in whatever way you like. Now, dearest of women, say yes and make us both happy, for you would make me so happy that I couldn't help making you happy too. I wish I had any idea where you will be when you read this letter, on which hangs all my hopes. Perhaps you will read it at Monte, out on the Corniche Road. Don't let the fact that you have been lucky at play make _me_ unlucky in--you know what! "Yours ever (this is no figure of speech), "Mark Gifford." Blanche Farrow sighed and smiled, as she deliberately read the long letter through twice. |