Wednesday
Chiswick
Dearest,
I think we will have to come to live in the south after the war! The weather this afternoon when I left work was glorious and there was quite a definite April warmth from the sun. I believe now, more than ever, that London gardens are months ahead of ours.
You are a silly girl to have left yourself without medicine for a few days! I’ll spank you good and hard when I come home, although I won’t say what with! Seriously, though, do try to keep a little in stock because as I have never tired of telling you, the secret of having a course of medicine is absolute continuity. Taking stuff in fits and starts is no good at all because your body can’t adjust itself. Still, I am glad you are making a real effort to get plenty of sleep for that will help a lot. Don’t worry about my sleep on this 48 hour stint. I’ll get plenty of that but I’m not so sure about fresh air. I never seem to get any at all these days.
I’m so glad you are looking better and if you can say that yourself then there must be an improvement because I think people are always the last to notice any changes – for better or worse – in themselves. I want to see you put on a stone in weight before next winter begins and then I will feel a lot happier about you. Don’t worry yet about feeling the effects of a wash day. I’m still convinced, as I have been from the start, that you will come on splendidly once spring comes and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find this had cleared up a lot of little things and that you will be better than ever by the end of the summer.
All my love, angel. Be a good girl for a few more weeks and then you can be as bad as you like!
Ever your own,
Arthur X
Jan 131943