The clock strikes-three,-and I am here, not with you-and my “fractious” headache at the very worst got suddenly better just now, and is leaving me every minute-as if to make me aware, with an undivided attention, that at this present you are waiting for me, and soon will be wondering-and it would be so easy now to dress myself and walk or run or ride-do anything that led to you .. but by no haste in the world could I reach you, I am forced to see, before a quarter to five-by which time I think
[7 February 1846]. Browning, Robert to Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.
Date - Search
1846-02-07
Author
Browning, Robert
Recipient
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Letter Text
The clock strikes-three,-and I am here, not with you-and my “fractious” headache at the very worst got suddenly better just now, and is leaving me every minute-as if to make me aware, with an undivided attention, that at this present you are waiting for me, and soon will be wondering-and it would be so easy now to dress myself and walk or run or ride-do anything that led to you .. but by no haste in the world could I reach you, I am forced to see, before a quarter to five-by which time I think