7/22 I love the artist." "And if you loved the soldier ?" "I should mount the baggage wagon and make him Bovril when he was wounded. But for you, dear, I shall cook and sew and bake and--" "Stop! stop! I want a wife, not a housekeeper." "Every sensible man wants the two in one." "But you should be a queen, darling." "Not with my own consent, Archie: the work is much too hard. Existence on six pounds a week with you will be more amusing. We can take a cottage, you know, and live, the simple life in Gartley village, until you become the P.R.A., and I can be Lady Hope, to walk in silk attire." "You shall be Queen of the Earth, darling, and walk alone." "How dull! I would much rather walk with you. And that reminds me that dinner is waiting. |