A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus - Tapa blanda

These are the beginnings of some of the letters which they wrote about that time. Woking, May 20th. My Dearest Maude, - You know that your mother suggested, and we agreed, that we should be married about the beginning of September. Don’t you think that we might say the 3rd of August? It is a Wednesday, and in every sense suitable. Do try to change the date, for it would in many ways be preferable to the other. I shall be eager to hear from you about it. And now, dearest Maude . . . (The rest is irrelevant.)