n, I played the Merry
Widow Waltz yesterday to Mrs. Polacca, who is a great authority on
music, and in with all the Queen's Hall set, and she said that my touch
reminded her of--I've forgotten the man's name now, which is rather
sickening, because it spoils the story a bit, but he was one of the real
tiptoppers who makes hundreds a week, and well, that was the sort of man
I reminded her of. If I can do that with a waltz, it stands to reason
that with something classic there'd be no holding me. I think I shall
give a recital. Tickets 10/6d. No free seats. No emergency exit. It is a
great mistake to have an emergency exit at a recital.

(_Three pages omitted._)

Really, O.D., you must hear me doing the double F in the Boston Cake
Walk to get me at my best. You've heard Kubelik on the violin? Well,
it's not a bit like that, and yet there's just the something which links
great artists together, no matter what their medium of expression.

Your loving,
~Thankyou.~

P.S.--Glad you're getting on so well with your walking.

V

_Dearest Thankyou_,--Hooray, hooray, hooray--I did twenty-five walks
to-day! Father counted. He says my style reminds him of "_Cancer
Vulgaris_" rather. How many times can he do it? Not twenty-five on the
third day, I'm sure.

Isn't it splendid of me? I see now where I was wrong yesterday. I got
the knack again suddenly this morning, and I'm all right now. To-morrow
I shall walk round the table. It is a longish way and there are four
turns, which I am not sure about. How do you turn? I suppose you put the
right hand out?

Your very loving.
O.D.

VI

_Dear O.D._,--I am rather hurt by your letters. I have written several
times to tell you all about my new pianola, and you don't seem to take
any interest at all. I was going to have told you this time that the man
in the flat below had sent me a note, just as if it had been a real
piano. He says he doesn't mind my playing all day, so long as I don't
start before eight in the morning, as he is in his bath then, and in
listening to the music quite forgets to come out sometimes, which I can
see might be very awkward.

Write to yours affectionately,
~Thankyou.~

VII

_Darling Thankyou_,--I am so so