Edith to Stuart
19.10.17
My Dearest
You must have just a brief note this morning, because I want to thank you for – everything. You do not know what a difference you have made to me, or else you would not say that you do not see how you are to help me. You have given me something to look forward to at the end of the day, you have given me something to look forward to at the end of school-life, (not the little school-house, where I would live by myself) you have given me something beautiful, to think about always, you have given me an aim that I am continually striving to reach. More than all this, you have given me the most precious thing on earth, yourself. Dearest, I can never thank you for all this, but you know I would, don’t you?
I was speaking to Katie about what you wanted to give me last night, and she said that the red cover is on Gladys’s bed. If it is, Dearest, you must not take it off. I would very much like to have it, but not from her bed. I can have it at some other time, can’t I? I thank you for both things, and I hope you will never have them back again.
You asked me, Dearest, in your “bluey letter”, to pray for you. Now I’ll tell you something which will show you what a queer person I am. I have prayed for you regularly, two or three times a day, for at least three years. I have not known you all that time, but I knew that there was a Man, somewhere, and at times I wanted him very badly. Shall I tell you what I called him? I knew he would not be walking out with any other girl, so I called him, “The Man who walks by himself”. Now God has sent him to me, and his old name does not apply. Are you happy, Dearest?
Goodbye, My Belovéd, until this evening. Goodbye.
(c) DearestBeloved 2009
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