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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-06 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2
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about Purgatory save that it's supposed to be a sort of half-way place. The air is warm and heavy with rain. Tomorrow will probably be a rainy one, but tonight the touch of the wind on my cheeks is maddening. It's dark as can be, and not a sign of a star, and I love it! And the most wonderful frog concert is going on. The leaves are whispering too. Oh lover, this without you!! If I can't have you I wish I might be some sort of a - well, let's see: I think I'd like to be a glow worm, and hide under some cool. damp leaf, with all these delicious night sounds going on about me. If I dared I'd go out and run for the country but to be out wandering about alone at night! Not to be tho't of, my dear! How the good folk would talk! Up home it would be different. At Chilton's I used to
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about Purgatory save that it's supposed to be a sort of half-way place. The air is warm and heavy with rain. Tomorrow will probably be a rainy one, but tonight the touch of the wind on my cheeks is maddening. It's dark as can be, and not a sign of a star, and I love it! And the most wonderful frog concert is going on. The leaves are whispering too. Oh lover, this without you!! If I can't have you I wish I might be some sort of a - well, let's see: I think I'd like to be a glow worm, and hide under some cool. damp leaf, with all these delicious night sounds going on about me. If I dared I'd go out and run for the country but to be out wandering about alone at night! Not to be tho't of, my dear! How the good folk would talk! Up home it would be different. At Chilton's I used to
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