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My darling,
As usual I was too overwhelmed at tea-time to be able to say anything then or afterwards. It was a great comfort and pleasure to me to have your letter. I am sorry I could only give you my tiny scrap. Actually I had felt exactly the same – that you and I ought to see the house together, but I was torn by the thought that you were having a very hard rush of work and were already much too tired, so I thought before suggesting it I would wait till I saw you today.
I have had some nice letters: indeed one of the things that has touched me has been the amount of affection and good will there is to us. Needless to say those who know you have no doubt at all that I am a very lucky man, a glimpse of the obvious, but how good it is to hear you praised and feel the affection and pride in which you my darling are held. My solicitor wrote a very pleasant letter. John Bowlby wrote very kindly and Sutherland, whom I rang up to-night and who is only just back from holiday, said that everyone in the Tavi is delighted and he sounded as if this were no conventional phrase. He also said that all the women in the Tavi that know you say how much they like you. John Rickman wrote congratulating me – I don't think you know him though. Then I got a very charming letter from Colonel Alex – the brother of the Field Marshal and my late CO – sending us both good wishes from himself and his wife. I am very fond of Alex: I always got on with him very well indeed. He wanted to know when the wedding is …
And – what are we going to do about the wedding? It sounds to me as if we shall have to put if off till we have saved enough money to hire the Albert Hall or Olympia for a reception!
I asked a taxi man today and he told me that from Victoria to Harley Street would take 10 minutes at most in the morning, as the streets
are clear, and would cost 2/– or 3/–,1 so that is obviously the answer. I am hoping this may mean that I could leave home (home!) at about 8.50 instead of 8.15 and that wil