"No one who knows anything of P.L. wonders at anything but my having stood it so long." During separation he wouldn't mind being in Dresden with Mariechen. Must marry within a week of separation's being over. "I should not mind a separation so much if it were not an instance of my Grandmother's power so that it enhances that superstitious feeling of the power of my family and class which I am always liable to when things go wrong." Send cheque-book which is in his writing-desk.