p.

2.

I will think & alway will, that you are the
most perfect lovely woman in all the world & love
to Max & all my love to you. There would be
the whole position in a nutshell. And this month,
I shall have expended over 60 pages & a great deal
of time, in telling you just those things. Oh darling -
I do hope you like my letters. For example, I shall
have written about two pages on this theme & by
the time I have exhausted it. And I have told
you nothing at all - except to give you an insight
into the workings of my mind from one other angle
& not a particularly illuminating one either. It is
perhaps silly to write in this way. You apologise
for your letters from time to time & accuse
yourself of being trivial or boring me. But I
am always. [?] a part from the thrilling & exciting
parts, interested with & charmed by your letter &
very often amused too. And so I can only hope that
my chatter is enough to please you - that my letters never
disappoint you.

Now, what shall I chatter about tonight, darling? I think
I will tell you some more about Peter & my
officers - the one is a constant pleasure to me &
the others are a constant irritation.

Peter really affords me with the only wholehearted
laughs which I get out here. He is such a pricelsess
mixture - because in spite of obeing a very independent
& strong minded little bugger, even to the extent of being
positively disobedient - he cannot bear to see me