Yvette to Henri.

27 July Vienna

I pine for you darling.  If I were wise I would say that I have only two more Sundays to spend without you, but you see I am not wise. And I want you now. Right away. I must tell you first that I didn’t write to you yesterday because I was too busy and in the evening there were people I had to talk to. When I was finally alone it was too late […] I sent you a telegram on Thursday and hope you have already received it to tell you that I will arrive on the 16^th August. My boss is very smart. He allows me to leave on the 13^th while my leave begins on the 20^th. So I think to arrive the morning of the 15^th.I wont wait any longer for the visa but will get my ticket and arrange the Czech formalities and the crossing of the Soviet zone. But that will take at lest 4 days.  So, darling, be careful not to send the visa too late. […] Soon the nights will be slow and happy, with you. With you. Tell me, little one, how will our first night be? I believe neither of us will be able to speak. It will be like my arrival at Quena (?). You will be totally dumb. And I will soon sleep in your arms. How good it will be to be lying against you, to have only to move my mouth towards you to embrace you. I taste your mouth; I have so much desire for it that I feel it already. […] Will our child have blue eyes? If I could behave like our great grand mothers and pray to heaven that it had your eyes, I believe I would do it. But I am asking you. Darling, be sure that this kid has your eyes!  Here the children are very beautiful. They are almost all blondes with blue eyes. You talk to me of Ouri (I want to call him Zou Zou as at home). Yes, he is really that little fellow free and solid that you see standing on the rock. […] I have a sudden mad urge to see you in pyjama pants, shaving. Perhaps you will tell me that you don’t like that? But you do like that. And I will kiss your cheeks all fresh and sweet, when you are finished.  I will begin at your ears and go on until your lips. That will be early in the morning and my hair will be wild and you will make it wilder still and we will be as light and gay as kids and you will take me in your arms; I feel your chest against my face and my arms around your neck.  I desire you most terribly, darling. […]  I am very curious to see you in civilian clothes. In those past years you were always a soldier.  I don’t want any more uniforms, no more “permissions” no more vagabond and precarious life.  I want to have a cupboard full of clean shirts and of ties and to ask you in the morning: Darling, do you want to wear this tie this morning?” I want you every day with me, close by, in our house, talking to me about your work and the children, […] See you soon my love. I kiss you forever.

Your Yvette