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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II

May 3rd, 1922

It's rather an important day for me. I am beginning my long serial … half of which has to be finished in a month from now. And I have also signed away all the rest of my book to be ready sans faute by the end of the summer. The serial is very exciting. It is 24,000 words, a short novel in fact. I want it to end with a simply scrumptious wedding, rose pink tulle frocks for the bridesmaids, favours on the horses' heads, that marvellous moment at the church when everyone is waiting, the servants in a pew to themselves. The Cook's hat! But all, all divinely beautiful if I can do it … gay, but with that feeling that ‘beauty vanishes beauty passes, Though rare, rare it be….’