January 21
Milan
I am reduced to a thing that wants V.
I composed a beautiful
letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night,
and it has
all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.
You,
with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase
as that;
perhaps you wouldn't even feel it. And yet I believe you'll be
sensible of a little gap.
But you'd clothe it in so exquisite a phrase
that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite
stark:
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was
prepared to miss you a good deal.
So this letter is just really a squeal
of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become.
I
suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you,
spoilt creature;
I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself
away like this—But oh my dear,
I can't be clever and stand-offish with
you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.
You have no idea how
stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a
fine art.
But you have broken down my defences.
And I don't really
resent it.
However I won't bore you with any more.
We have re-started, and the train is shaky again.
However I won't bore you with any more.
We have re-started, and the train is shaky again.
I shall have to write
at the stations - which are fortunately many across the Lombard plain.
Venice. The stations were many, but I didn't bargain for the Orient Express not stopping at them.
Venice. The stations were many, but I didn't bargain for the Orient Express not stopping at them.
And here we are at Venice for ten minutes
only,—a wretched time in which to try and write.
No time to buy an
Italian stamp even, so this will have to go from Trieste.
The waterfalls in Switzerland were frozen into solid iridescent curtains of ice,
The waterfalls in Switzerland were frozen into solid iridescent curtains of ice,
hanging over the rock; so lovely. And Italy all blanketed in
snow.
We're going to start again. I shall have to wait till Trieste tomorrow morning.
We're going to start again. I shall have to wait till Trieste tomorrow morning.
Please forgive me for writing such a miserable letter.
V.
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