The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I
December 30, 1915
Money doesn't frighten me a bit. We'll be two little silkworms and live on mulberry leaves. If you come here we shall both write poetry—a mutual book which we will publish together. Also we shall both write a kind of ‘paysages’ and we shall both write—well, I shouldn't be surprised if we both wrote anything.
The little house is there, waiting for us. Its eyes are shut until I open them. The sun touches the verandah and warms the place where your hand will rest. Tout bas, tout bas mon coeur chante: “Cinquante kilos de charbon de pierre—cinquante kilos de charbon de coke et des poids pour allumer pour cinq sous—c'est presqu'un sac.” I page 64 have such a lot to do to-day. I must go out soon. Again I am not dressed but idling here with your letter beside me. I hardly slept at all.