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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

Thursday — March 14, 1918

Thursday
March 14, 1918

I received your telegram this afternoon. I had also a letter from Cook's to-day saying that one must engage a page 155 place a week in advance for the rapide. So I am sending L. M. to Marseilles to-morrow to spy out the land, and she will get the seats for as soon as possible. In the meantime I will wire you my delay. I must try at all costs to get across before Easter. That means, however, that I can't possibly leave here before the 20th at earliest, and it may be a day or two later. It will be as soon as I can. I shall have much more to go upon once L. M. has been to Cook's and if possible to the Consul's. Your telegram, of course, made me feel I must rush even to-night.

I was amused because it had been opened, read and translated by these people (for it was still wet) and they gathered in force to see me receive it, with their hands and eyes all ready to be lifted proper. You see your little Briton casting a moonlight beam upon it and saying, as she read, “Voulez-vous me monter un thé simple à quatre heures, s'il vous plaît?” They were very cool upon that. So was the tea. From a sort of ‘ice to ice’ principle, I suppose.