Sweetheart,
Please, please don’t be so depressed—We’ll
be married soon, and then these lonesome nights will be over forever—and
until we are, I am loving, loving every tiny minute of the day and
night—
Maybe you won’t understand this, but sometimes when I
miss you most, it’s hardest to write—and you always know when I make
myself—Just the ache of it all—and I can’t tell you.
If we were
together, you’d feel how strong it is—you’re so sweet when you’re
melancholy. I love your sad tenderness—when I’ve hurt you—That’s one of
the reasons I could never be sorry for our quarrels—and they bothered
you so— Those dear, dear little fusses, when I always tried so hard to
make you kiss and forget—
Scott—there’s nothing in all the world I want but you—and your precious love—All the materials things are nothing.
I’d
just hate to live a sordid, colorless existence-because you’d soon love
me less—and less—and I’d do anything—anything—to keep your heart for my
own—I don’t want to live—I want to love first, and live incidentally…
Don’t—don’t
ever think of the things you can’t give me—You’ve trusted me with the
dearest heart of all—and it’s so damn much more than anybody else in all
the world has ever had—
How can you think deliberately of life
without me—If you should die—O Darling—darling Scott—It’d be like going
blind…I’d have no purpose in life—just a pretty—decoration.
Don’t
you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered—and I was
delivered to you—to be worn—I want you to wear me, like a watch—charm or
a button hole bouquet—to the world.
And then, when we’re alone, I want to help—to know that you can’t do anything without me…
All my heart—
I love you