35 Nevern Place
S.W. 5
20th August 1935
My Darling Mary,
Your letter arrived this evening just before I went out to dinner with aunt Mildred. It is the nicest I have ever had - several have been lately.
Darling, I didn't know you really hated German, or even that you disliked it much. Perhaps, being so intent on teaching you it, I projected my own interest in it too much on to you. Of course don't learn it if you don't want to. I was thinking particularly of the time when you would be Frau Kühne's in-law & might use German a lot. Anyhow, you have very much a will of your own & I think I can trust you not to be "put upon" by me; though your mother doesn't seem to.
To smooth things over with Mrs Ormo I have pretended that we were cut off (on the phone) by accident, so don't say I rang off, will you. I could tell her the truth & say I was sorry but - apart from that not being much truer† than what I am saying - I know that directly we started discussing I should get angry again.
†It is true really because I ought to have been more steady than to let your mother annoy me & also I am sorry to have quarrelled with her in the abstract, even if I can't quite be sorry about the actual moment.
It is boiling hot here. I am sitting in my room with very little on writing as much as I can so that I can send this off tomorrow.
You do seem to be having a lovely time. Hearing of all the places you are going makes me absolutely writhe to get away to you.
I haven't been anywhere since I have been back, but I am thinking of trying to get a seat for the six hour version of "Man & Superman". Do say you can come to "Love on the Dole"!
How lovely about Bodil's letter & Inge's comments! It isn't just guessing. It is sometimes quite true that onlookers see most of the game. Look how we saw far more of the Renny & Joan affair than Renny even could.
I shall put in for your £1 tomorrow & send it as soon as it comes through, probably on Thursday.
"The Embassy" has still got "Edwy". I will send "The Slug" out again somewhere this week.
Thanks for your warning about the job. As a matter of fact early yesterday evening looking through the Telegraph advertisements I was thinking I apply for all sorts of jobs that I should hate. Just out of impatience.
Re Abyssinia (don't think I don't see that you were really pulling my leg) (just in case you don't see) (as you often don't) wasn't it about this time last year that I said we should have war in a year's time. Now I make another prophecy that you won't find in the papers for a while. Italy will probably start fighting Abyssinia but rather than let them get control over Lake Tsana, the British will arrange for them to "buy" Mozambique from the Portuguese - and also that Germany will later get Angola, also from Portugal.
So sorry that you and Gunther (no dots over the u - not in Luftpost) have had such a bother about the film. I hope you have got it straightened out now. I'll let you have the 2.50pfn with the £1.
I must read "The Man Who Was Thursday" again. it is about eight or nine years since I read it all through & I didn't understand it, I remember.
I see your Radio show has been burnt down. I bet they blame the communists!
Thank you for Dick, I shall treasurer him for ever.
Yesterday I went to the Poly Institute to get particulars of their course in Cinematography, but it turns out that one has to be in the trade & recommended by the Cinematograph Association before one can take it. I was going along that way again to-day when who should I run into but Marie Reyneau (or whatever the name is). She and another girl were looking for the American Consulate. She asked after you & invited us both up.
I wish I had a lot of interesting experiences and events to relate to you in return for all you tell me. Did I tell you that South Africa house has nothing to do with appointments to private films only to government jobs of their own & they are always given to residents of South Africa.
Just after I got back to England I went along to the new "Drama League" building at the top of Tottenham Court Rd to take back the Shaw books. I decided to lunch up there & went into an Indian restaurant. After a very good but stinging hot meal of mulligatawny soup, egg curry and a queer but delicious sweet, I found I hadn't enough money on me to pay for it. When the waiter came along with the bill I sent for the manager & explained the circs. I said I would pay next day & in the meantime would leave something as security. The manager, an Indian (all the staff were Indians) wouldn't hear of it. He wouldn't even accept what money I had on me, saying that I might need it. As the only thing I had to leave was my gold watch which was out of all proportion to the debt I did not press him. next day I went back & paid him and had another lunch there. He came & talked to me & showed himself a most cultured & interesting man. I shall certainly always lunch there whenever I go to change my books.
Jill is in the throes of getting a passport. I sent her the form this evening. She sounds very excited about the journey.
I must stop now, darling, and go to bed. I don't dream of you because you are not only in my subconscious mind, but well and truly in my conscious one too. I expect our having to wait to get married is really rather good for us. We are slowly, like a bridge, building closer to each other from different sides of a river, and when we are married we shall really meet in the middle. Oh dear, for the present it will be enough for me when we meet on Victoria Station - tomorrow week! What a pity there will be so many of us there. I wish I could get down to Dover but I can't.
All my swelling heart of love.
I.L.Y.M.T.A.I.T.W.
Terrick XXX
Kindest regards to the Aumund Family
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