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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

Friday — December 14, 1917

Friday
December 14, 1917

…It's not so cold to-day, and I feel a great deal better. I will tell you what the medicine man says to-morrow. I am sure he will be surprised. I feel quite different—rather quiet still—rather like a doll that has been mended but put on a high shelf to dry before it can be played with again…

It's a nice day here—very quiet and warm. Even the milkman crying milk sounds to me like a bird trying its page 86 note—a funny sort of bird, you know—a bird penguinian. The clock ticks on tip-toe and the yellow curtains wave gently. I love such a day. It's such a rest—not having been outside for three days. I love to be out of the streets and buses, out of the nudging crowds. Oh, I must work. The very shadows are my friends. Don't forget to weigh yourself again when the week is up, and if you are not heavier you must melt a horse-shoe in your next glass of milk so as not to disappoint me….