But he is going to have your artistic hands.

When I cuddle them against my neck, the awful longing and loneliness of these past months seem wiped out.

But only because he is yours, darling, and because I know you are soon coming back to him and to me.
"I could not tell you before you went, because I know you would have felt obliged to give up going, and your book is so important; and I have not told you since, because you must not have anything to worry you while so far away.

Also I was glad to bear it alone, and to save you the hard part.

One soon forgets the hardness, in the joy.
"Jane was with me.
"We are sending no announcement to the papers, for fear you should see it on the way home.