THE LETTER
It yet late, turned into Laundress Passage. Fatcs and closed tters; but so I come o darkness on t over tairs to t. t cast a foolscap rectangle of paleness onto t pavement, and it rectangle, about to turn my key in t I first sater. Anote rectangle, it ep from ttom, .
I closed t ts usual place bery. Poor Bailey. No one ed gray book for ty years. Sometimes I ’s tiny er ting.
A letter. For me. t . ts tents, man a certain amount of trouble. Altyle of ting it ten by a cters seemed untrained. trokes eito notco tters t spelled out my name. Eacaken separately—M A R G A R E t L E A—as a neing enterprise. But I kne is the hand of an invalid.
It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or t my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—
some stranger—o trouble of marking my name onto t ed a thing?
Still in my coat and , I sank onto tair to read tter. (I never read making sure I am in a secure position. I ting on a er Babies, I ions of underer life t I unconsciously relaxed my muscles. Instead of being field buoyant by ter t so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted to t. I can still feel the ;car under my fringe now. Reading can be dangerous.)
I opened tter and pulled out a sten in t. to my manuscripts. t secret to it. Patience and practice are all t is required. t and to cultivate an inner eye. t er, fire, lig to study not just tters but otion. t relax. til you ao a dream self oucickling your surface. t. tention of te