Write to me, therefore.

Especially as the English critics will worry me alive for my book and you will have to say, 'Well done, critics!' so write before you read it, to say, 'Ba, I love you.' That makes up for everything.

Oh, I know you did write to me in the summer.

And then I wrote to you; and then there came a _pause_, which is hard on me, I repeat.
Geddie has come here, lamenting also.

Besides, we have been somewhat disappointed by your not coming to Italy.