The farm produces delicious brown eggs--and you should see--and _taste_--the omelets the farmer's wife makes! Coffee too--first-rate! How these French women work! Our men are always helping them, and the children hang round our Tommies like flies.
'These two days in bed are a godsend, for I can read all your letters through again.

There they are--spread out on my sheet! By Jove, little woman, you've treated me jolly well! And now I can pay you back a little.

But perhaps you won't mind, dearest, if I don't write anything very long, for I expect I ought to take it easy--for a bit--I can't think why I should have felt so slack.

I never knew anything about nerves before.

But the doctor has been very nice and understanding--a real, decent fellow.