A DIARY WITHOUT DATES
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UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
THE LOVERS
BY ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL
"It is one of the most charming little books among the many that owe their genesis to the war. The letters might be described as a lyric of married love; and their beauty and passion are enhanced by the exquisite setting which Mrs. Pennell has given them."--_Yorkshire Post._
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
A DIARY WITHOUT DATES
BY
ENID BAGNOLD
[Illustration: Logo]
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
_First printed January 1918_
_Second Impression February 1918_
_London: William Heinemann, 1918_
TO THAT FRIEND OF MINE WHO, WHEN I WROTE HIM ENDLESS LETTERS, SAID COLDLY, "WHY NOT KEEP SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF!"
_I apologize to those whom I may hurt._
_Can I soothe them by pleading that one may only write what is true for oneself?_
_E. B._
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
- 2: IOUTSIDE THE GLASS DOORS I like discipline
- 3: The impermanency of life in a hospital
- 4: To night I was laying my trays in the corridor
- 5: Crushed into the set branches of the hedge
- 6: He lay with his profile to me only he has no profile
- 7: Captain Matthew appeared in the circle of light
- 8: Close the door of the little bunk
- 9: And then I shan't be able to chivy her
- 10: But of this harp his fingers were the slave
- 11: They take the stretcher into a ward
- 12: And strangely unsexed women moving in them
- 13: The fog developed all day yesterday
- 14: And naked trees with the rime on them
- 15: I could have dropped the holly on him
- 16: The sudden plunges into the brilliant wards
- 17: With his hair done up in hairpins
- 18: I paid for a specialist myself
- 19: As there are Icelanders urbane
- 20: Replied the younger one firmly
- 21: Lascars and children and Jews and I
- 22: I was a beggar outside San Marco
- 23: He was a traveller in ladies' underwear
- 24: As I went quickly past him with my load of bath towels
- 25: The convoy will arm me against them
- 26: There's a stretcher and another
- 27: Flicking the sheets mechanically from the mattress
- 28: The youngest Sister will say equally often
- 29: I stood down by the hatch waiting for the tray of fish
- 30: Last night we had another concert in the ward
- 31: A Sister has an intimate life
- 32: With the big toe curling up and the little toes curling back
- 33: It seems to me that if he could see those trams
- 34: Smiff had a flash of temper to night
- 35: I heard him say to Smiff who laughed
- 36: But it was a blackbird in a nightmare
- 37: Fountain pen shops always are stocktaking
- 38: While the ulcers on his leg are being dressed
- 39: Everything in the dispensary is beautiful its glasses
- 40: Patches of the corridor are thick with soapsuds
- 41: The dairyman hasn't been to the Front
- 42: But there was no forgetting Gayner
- 43: Standing beside the cabbage patch
- 44: Scutts is not one of those whose life is stopped
- 45: Scutts will sometimes talk for an hour
- 46: Scutts and Monk talk to me while I sew
- 47: One convoy last night and another this morning
- 48: Even the convoy cannot mend the pains of the new V
- 49: Waker is not everything a man should be he isn't clever
- 50: Jerking his thumb at the dairyman
- 51: Pinker is full of grains of knowledge