Words of Patrice Tardieu

Preliminary remark by Patrice Tardieu: I have just found, written directly by Maud, those words of our mutual affection that Véronique, in a mail, called «　what a wonderful love encounter!　»,that I had previously accounted for.

Text by Maud Tardieu:

«　Words of Pat. Nine years old.

Left alone with his father, without me, at Hamstead Heath, an evening, as I came back from Paris to London, I put him to bed so that he sleeps his night through, and as I kissed him, he told me:

"Mummy, I don’t want to shut my eyes anymore, I want to look at you always".　»

Maud’s trunk (10)