LETTERS

“But it is just the ones you think so personal and compromising that interest me,” the Secretary Captain complained. “Even I get perfectly ordinary letters from ladies of one rank or another, in the course of my correspondence with them. The letters worth reading are those sent when the writer was angry, or when dusk was falling and she anxiously awaited her lover’s coming.”

(The Tale of Genji, chap. 2, p. 22)