17 Nov 1921

17 November 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

P.S. No, what you ought to have said to the Fighting Dogs was: Will you go in or stay out? Which will you have Heads or Tails?
P.P.S. What a duck Marie Loo must be.
P.P.P.S. No, I dont like mousey colours. We began to wind after lunch today and now a miniature Garsington sits on the carpet. The cat almost had delirium tremens. We thought we should have to chloroform him finally. He sat up & began to wind his own tail.
P.P.P.P.S. M. is at this moment sliding on the ice.
P.P.P.P.P.S. I sent you those postcards just to show you how innocent a corner we keep. Now I shall get you some others to show you what it is really like.
[To Dorothy Brett, 14 November 1921.]

It happened that Alexander and his friend missed the Sunday morning train that all the company travelled by. The only other for them to catch so as as to be at their destination in time for the rehearsal on Monday morning was one that left London at midnight. The devil of a time! And the devil of a train, too. It stopped at every station. Must have been carrying the London milk into country said Alexander bitterly, and his friend, who thought there was no one like him said "That's good, that is. Extremely good.You would get a laugh for that in the Halls I should say." They spent the evening with their landlady in her kitchen. She was fond of Alexander: she thought him quite the gentleman.  [KM Notebooks 2]