Henri to Yvette

650 Gen Tpt Coy
Italy

4 May

Attached are cheques for five pounds. This after your charming letter where you explain, very carefully, that its better for you to tighten your belt – by one notch only- than to know I am deprived of anything. Poor little Henry, who hasn’t even enough for a cigarette!” Listen, darling, he is not as poor as that, your Henry. He is not poor at all. He is actually the richer: he has you….. Do you know my love that Henry smokes up to 30 cigarettes a day!  If you loved me you would rather growl at me for that (thinking of my lungs!) and not for my “sacrifice:”