8th October 1937

8th October 1937

Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Why don’t you write? I was waiting for a letter from you since I was here. But I remember I have not thanked you for your nice card of the World Exhibition. I hope you enjoy your stay at Paris as much as the rest of your journey. And now you are safely back in Bath and school has started for you. Isn’t it your last term? I have stopped learning two years ago and now I have already forgotten everything I ever knew. One could kill me but I don’t know when Edward the Confessor lived. The only date I can remember is the coronation of Charlemagne. Rasso has got a governess, but we three girls don’t do anything than sit in our drawing room and write letters. We do write letters, and if you want it, we would write to you every week or fortnight. But we expect you to answer just as often. Muck is busy collecting stamps and playing the accordion and Baby is playing the piano, and I don’t see any possibility of running away. And now we read every one of Deidi’s books before they are sent to her. She has got about 20 Pimpernel books and my head is quite dizzy with them, but they are amusing and I read Jayne Eyre too and I liked it very much. I hope you got Baby’s postcard of Tristran. I am sorry we can’t go to the opera now but we go to see the pictures every week. We saw “A Tale of Two Cities” it is marvellous. And something about Chinese gold with Gary Cooper. It was exciting and he knocked out the whole lot of his enemies.

Next week we are going to see “Anthony Adverse”. Here one sees rather a lot of American and English films and many Germans too. The few Hungarians are awfully bad and not worthwhile seeing. We have many guests and enjoy our stay here. I go riding for 2 hours every morning. And we play tennis and Ping-Pong. We have got an Irish girl staying with us till November. She is called Mary D’Arcy. And she stayed five years at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton near London. So we are practicing our English. Deidi is coming to see us in November. Now she is living at Mandelieu and finishing her little villa. She has got five rooms and a lovely big garden and is very happy.

Much love Loll