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[Page 47]

So I'll have to leave it till next time.

I'm feeling very gay today, we've just been relieved & came back for a spell after being 80 days (quite a record for the winter) without a spell & I've had a bath & clean change & find myself billeted in an old Chateau, much the worse for wear but with a few sound rooms left & here we have beds to sleep in & a fine fire to sit round & we've had a fine dinner & everything in the garden is lovely – only one thing lacking to make our happiness complete, the feminine, the sauce that savours our entire existence. But I wish you could see this spot, "avant la guerre" it must have been indeed beautiful, & though in its ruin its grandens [grandness] still stands out it is of a sort to make one's

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