:27:12
How's the tea coming along?
:27:14
It's almost ready.
:27:18
What would we do
without our cups of tea?
:27:22
Life would be insupportable,
how would it not?
:27:30
The train from Ketchworth
is now arriving at Platform 3.
:27:32
The train from Ketchworth
is now arriving at Platform 3.
:27:41
Forgive me.
:27:43
For what?
:27:45
For everything.
:27:47
For meeting you in the first place,
and taking the grit out of your eye.
:27:52
For loving you.
:27:54
For bringing you so much misery.
:27:58
I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.
:28:08
Thursday.
:28:10
Write and tell me about London.
:28:12
I live for the day
when I step off the boat train...
:28:15
...and feel its dirty sidewalks
under my feet.
:28:18
I want to walk up Berkeley Square
and down Wimpole Street...
:28:23
...and stand in St. Paul's
where John Donne preached.
:28:26
And sit where Elizabeth sat,
refusing to enter the Tower...
:28:29
...and places like that.
:28:32
A newspaper man I know,
who was in London during the war says...
:28:37
...tourists go to England
with preconceived notions...
:28:40
...so they find exactly
what they go looking for.
:28:44
I told him I'd go looking for the England
of English literature.
:28:48
And he said, "Then, it's there."
:28:55
Dear Miss Hanff:
:28:57
This is to tell you we have in stock
The Oxford Book of English Verse.