ps, I often rite to people telling them where I was edducated and
highly reckomending you.


LETTER IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF WEDDING PRESENT.

DEAR LADY AMBLESHAM,
Who gives quickly, says the old proverb, gives twice. For this reason
I have purposely delayed writing to you, lest I should appear to thank
you more than once for the small, cheap, hideous present you sent me
on the occasion of my recent wedding. Were you a poor woman, that
little bowl of ill-imitated Dresden china would convict you of
tastelessness merely; were you a blind woman, of nothing but an odious
parsimony. As you have normal eyesight and more than normal wealth,
your gift to me proclaims you at once a Philistine and a miser (or
rather did so proclaim you until, less than ten seconds after I had
unpacked it from its wrappings of tissue paper, I took it to the open
window and had the satisfaction of seeing it shattered to atoms on the
pavement). But stay! I perceive a possible flaw in my argument.
Perhaps you were guided in your choice by a definite wish to insult
me. I am sure, on reflection, that this was so. I shall not forget.
Yours, etc.,
CYNTHIA BEAUMARSH.

PS. My husband asks me to tell you to warn Lord Amblesham to keep out
of his way or to assume some disguise so complete that he will not be
recognised by him and horsewhipped.

PPS. I am sending copies of this letter to the principal London and