Letters: Meg and Adrien
Oct 6, 2010 3:44:13 GMT -5
Post by Meg Giry on Oct 6, 2010 3:44:13 GMT -5
(Delivered to the Veidt Building and, after about twelve layers of bureaucracy, given to Adrian Veidt himself to give to Adrien.)
Dear Adrien,
I sent this to your gentleman's office because I did not know where else to send it. I hope very much that you get it!
I've read little bits of your adventures in the papers and it all sounds so very exciting. I hope you're as happy as you look. Maybe you will be able to help me learn how to handle being famous once everyone here knows I'm a duchess. That should at least get the other girls to stop tormenting me- well, tormenting's a strong word. The truth is, though, once you've had two suitors that never did any suiting, people start to think certain things about you. Alexei is busy all the time now and Tybalt is in Verona again, and with Iris gone too and Christine busy with the moving-pictures man and you in America I'm beginning to feel very lonely.
They speak French at Court, I know, but I don't want to seem unforgivably common, so I'm going to try to learn German too. I know that they will probably already look down on me for being a dancer and for having beaux, but I won't let that stop me. I'm going to be the perfect royal lady, just like Rudi's mother was. (I am calling the Kaiser Rudi as a private joke so that I can start thinking of him like family, not some distant inhuman thing.)
Please write back if you get this, but don't waste too much time away from M. Veidt, you lucky thing. (You didn't tell me he is so handsome! Is he really almost fifty? He looks like a beautiful statue the same way Tybalt looked like a very stern, beautiful painting.) I don't want to keep you from your happiness!
Love,
Meg
Dear Adrien,
I sent this to your gentleman's office because I did not know where else to send it. I hope very much that you get it!
I've read little bits of your adventures in the papers and it all sounds so very exciting. I hope you're as happy as you look. Maybe you will be able to help me learn how to handle being famous once everyone here knows I'm a duchess. That should at least get the other girls to stop tormenting me- well, tormenting's a strong word. The truth is, though, once you've had two suitors that never did any suiting, people start to think certain things about you. Alexei is busy all the time now and Tybalt is in Verona again, and with Iris gone too and Christine busy with the moving-pictures man and you in America I'm beginning to feel very lonely.
They speak French at Court, I know, but I don't want to seem unforgivably common, so I'm going to try to learn German too. I know that they will probably already look down on me for being a dancer and for having beaux, but I won't let that stop me. I'm going to be the perfect royal lady, just like Rudi's mother was. (I am calling the Kaiser Rudi as a private joke so that I can start thinking of him like family, not some distant inhuman thing.)
Please write back if you get this, but don't waste too much time away from M. Veidt, you lucky thing. (You didn't tell me he is so handsome! Is he really almost fifty? He looks like a beautiful statue the same way Tybalt looked like a very stern, beautiful painting.) I don't want to keep you from your happiness!
Love,
Meg