Love letter from Lady Croom to Septimus (from teh Book Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard)

To my True Love Septimus,

It's important for me to paint my love for you in words. If it were possible, I would do this in person, while holding you in my arms and gazing into your eyes. But I cannot. Physically separated by legal bounds, you still are all my heart ever needed to complete me.

You are everything I never knew I always wanted. You make me feel things I have never felt before. You are the world to me. To you my heart belongs. The thought of you refreshes my senses and relaxes my spirit. I feel alive.

In a timeless place, I'd want for us to be eternally together. Although it's easy for me to love you, it's hard to live without you. I walk the world a free woman, yet as long as I love you I am not. I am chained to you. You are my food and my air.

Love Don't Live Here Anymore

February 8, 1930

To Rome, with love

Without you I cannot live.

I love you with all my mind, spirit and body.

I live for the day when physical separation will not exist anymore. Until then, my love and passionate kisses belong to you.

Eternally,

Lady Croom