Here are the books; so many thanks for them. I think some of the stories in A Hasty Bunch are quite extraordinarily good. All of them have interested me immensely. There is something so fresh and unspoilt about the writer, even when he is a little bit self-conscious —in the youthful way, you know. But he has got real original talent and I think he'll do awfully good work. He's much more interestsng than these sham young super-cultured creatures. I hope he gets on with his job. I feel I'd like to help him if I could, in some way. But I expect he'd scorn that idea.

Do you know, chérie, I'm off to France on Monday. I want to go on with that treatment there rather than here and for many many reasons I—enfin—well, there's something in England that just pushes me off the nest. It's no good. I shall never ‘settle’ here. But Brett is keeping page 247 my two little rooms here for flying visits. It's nice to have them.

I am going to try your Hôtel Jacob. I hope they will have rooms. Of course, ever since I took my ticket, the sun has come out and there's a kind of blue tinge in the sky, quite a piece of it. But if I tore my ticket up it would be snowing at tea-time. I shall never forget my Lunch with you.