p.

3.

with every body except you - oh dear, I do feel sad.
Goodnight, sweet darling & I shall think of you &
how I love you when I am in bed. XXXH.

Monday Dec 8th - I decided yesterday to give a little party to
celebrate our anniversary. So I had a bottle of Camel Hock
put on the ice: a bottle of Rishan Claret put in
warm water & glasses put on the table & made sure that
we had sherry & brandy. Solaman came in before dinner,
first & had a glass of sherry & then I suddenly felt sick &
serious about it all & had the wine kept back on its shelf &
the glasses removed from the table. They are such a boring
blasted lot & I could not face it. And I decided
instead to take Ben Solaman to Tel-Aviv for dinner &
"Gone with the Wind" which has just arrived. It will cost
more money but I shall not grudge it.

Did you remember, darling, the day we saw [that film?] in
London? You were wearing your chartreuse coloured frock -
the one you have on in your photograph & we walked
about London from the photographer to [?] where
I bought my sun glasses which I have never worn, to
Martins Bak to get the travellers cheques & to the
snack bar where we had lunch & holding hands all the
time. I often think of those days in London in Sept,
& how lovely you were. But how we wasted time - trying
to buy Khakis drill which we never bought & seeing if
you could come to Egypt as a nurse or anything at
all & there was never any chance. And all the
time we might have been away somwhere in the
country & having an ever lovelier time.