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Goodnight darling pet = [Toby?] sleeps on my bed - ok when
will you sleep in it. & [???] next door. xxxx H.

Monday - May 11th No letters & no pics for me today.
You were talking in a letter about buying or building
a house, & as you will know by now, I have been thinking
about it too, & even went as far as to draw a modest
plan of one part of my ideas about such a house. It
would be wonderful to have our own house, & one day
we will have it. But somehow there seems to me to
be no hope of having that right away. I think that
we are both going to be so militantly political &
reforming. that I may have to tell Peter to take my
job & stuff it up. And if that should happen, we
are neither of us so attached to Bradford that we
shall seek another job only there, so that really
means that we shall have to find a house to
rent again, which is not a very satisfactory prospect
really. You were sweet to say, darling, that you could
be deliriously happy with me in a rabbit hutch. And
that certainly goes for me too. Anyway, if we can
only find something of the sort of 37 Nat Lane again,
that would do us very nicely for a few months
or a year or two, until we knew more about
ourselves. But even that may be very difficult to find
when the war is over. If you do nip up to have a look
when I am on my way home, do not sign any long
or expensive agreement. Because I feel that owners
will be very much on the make, if the demand
for houses outruns the supply. And building or
buying as an investment will be no good, because
I am afraid prices will be very high & then when
they come down we shall have lost so much
money. It all depends so much on what we