| 35/43 "Write to your sister; get her to send your belongings from Casa Rolandi, together with a ream of scribbling-paper. I shall be out of doors most of the day, and no one will disturb you here.  Use the opportunity like a man.   I have a strong suspicion that it is now or never with you."  "I doubt whether I could do anything here."  "Perhaps not on a day like this; but it is happily exceptional.   Were I a penman, the view from this window in sunlight would make the ink flow nobly."  Elgar was mute for a few minutes.  |