“Toots”
Poor Child in Distress, let me help you if I can. Remember I shall speak as a man and that is perhaps well, for the masculine mind is able to understand this strange self-torture that is clouding your fiancé’s love for you and making you so unhappy. Believe me, there is only one way. You must be patient. You must prove your love by your candour. Do not tire of reassuring him that his suspicions are groundless. Remain tranquil. Go on loving him. Try a little gentle laughter but if it is unsuccessful do not continue. Never let him think you impatient. A thought. There are some natures so delicate and sensitive that they must be handled like flowers. They need sun. They must be tended. Otherwise their spiritual growth is checked. Your Personal Chat letter will reach you to-morrow.
Footnote to G.P.F.’s page.
G.P.F. will write you a very special Personal Chat if you send a stamped and addressed envelope and five-shilling postal order to “Personal Chat. Harmony. 5 Materfamilias Lane, E.C. 2.”
From Miss Carlisle Wayne to Miss Félicité de Suze:
Friars Pardon
Benham
Bucks.
Dear Fée,
I’ve had rather a queer letter from Aunt Cile, who wants me to come on the third. What have you been up to?
Love,
Lisle
From the Honourable Edward Manx to Miss Carlisle Wayne:
Harrow Flats
Sloane Square
London, S.W.I
Dearest Lisle,
Cousin Cécile says you are invited to Duke’s Gate for the week-end on Saturday the third. I shall come down to Benham in order to drive you back. Did you know she wants to marry me to Félicité? I’m really not at all keen and neither, luckily, is Fée.