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February 1914

YOU are good to me! Two letters this morning and a telegram yesterday afternoon. I wished that I might have sent you one in return but I thought you would not expect it so I … guarded the money. It would be a great relief to talk over everything, but by the time you get this letter it will be Friday morning and unless your plans have changed you will have no time to reply to me except ‘in person.’ I talked over ‘the business’ with you yesterday as much as I could by letter and without you. Depend upon us—we're quite strong enough now to find a way out of our difficulties and we will and be happy, too, and do our work. (By being happy I mean happy together in the ‘odd times,’ you know.) And if I can get a room in London that hasn't another opening out of it and isn't the logical end of a passage I can work there as well as anywhere—supposing we arrange to leave here at once.

After a miserable winter (1914–15) in a damp and draughty cottage near Great Missenden ( Journal, pp. 15–23) during part of which K. M. was crippled by arthritis, and was unable to write, she went to Paris in February, returning to Missenden at the end of the month, but only to escape again to Paris in March and again in May.