p.

an Airgraph - of course, I shall cable you. And if
there is no time for me to get your reply,
Ben-Azi will open it when it comes. And if
it does not come, he will cable you himself,
& he will go on cabling you until he has your
reply, & has actually had your confirmation that
you have received all news & instructions. I
shall leave him list for this very purpose, & such
change as there may be, he will buy silk
stockings etc & send them on to US (size 9 1/2).
I am terribly sorry that you have had all this
suspense, my darling - it is because of these unreliable
mails. I thought that I had arranged things so that
the first word you heard would be that I had
tried & failed, & then the details would arrive later.
Poor darling - & me too. Can you imagine my own
state? The military mails arrive four times a day &
so for weeks I was on edge four times a day, which
in effect, means all day. And now I am awaiting
the next opportunity - also four times a day!
But I am quite certain that I prefer to have
a glimmer of hope such as this, than just to
chafe & fret with nothing to look forward to in the
way of hope, but the end of the war.
And now, ducky wucky, I must give you a lecture & a
talking to about money. You sent me on the bank sheet
for November, which started off with +#164 & finished
with +#L79 - in other words L85 in one short month.
You were afraid of the impending income tax & saw us
overdrawn again. And in Nov, there were #30 for