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passionate things we do - & what will happen when we get
[much underlined] older; shall we stop, & will it be you or me who
is offended & hurt when we do stop. And I have decided
that we shall never stop - only that we may become
more gentle & perhaps a little less ardent. Don't you
feel this too, my darling?
Tuesday Feb 10th I couldn't write any more last night, darling-
I sat here for nearly two hours, thinking about you & about
us, & gazing at your big photographs, & looking through my
album of scraps which you have sent me, & reading
some of your letters. I can sit & think about you for hours,
easily - I only wish I had more time to do it.
I am very busy at the moment - & I have just done a
thing which may easily make me even busier in the
near future. I have written, on Sunday, a personal &
confidential letter to a R.A.F. Squadron leader - which is
the equivalent rank to a Major - telling him, in so
many words, that he is unefficient, ineffectual & useless, &
that if he did not give me a satisfactory reply
by this morning, I would take the matter up
with the Area Commander. Nothing happened by this
morning, & so off I went & laid my letter before the
Brigade Major. He was shocked to the core & just
about stunned, as well as barking with laughter, & said
I should not write letters like that without seeing
him first. I told him I did not want to get the
man into trouble behind his back. I then was
taken in to see the A. C. - he was impressed &
sympathetic & most agreeable, & has asked me to
write him a private letter, which he will pass on
to the General. So now I am wide open for a
counter attack. You cannot tell me that I do