Jan 22 Saturday.

Laura worked till [until] 8.30 am & then slept until it was time to catch the train to Orpington1 (Roz met us at the station Charing X). We had lunch there – a 30/- suburban villa. Roz in worse trouble with Jim: an unofficial separation. Would have been sorry for her but for her intensely stupid impartial-psychological misreadings of the past.
Paul's first birthday. Some people called Mrs Saxton & Mrs Bicknell to tea: more humour than Roz.
Ingrid, the Hamburg2 nurse, drove us back.
Laura did Belisarius again.
Another letter from John Lucy. Last time it was threats & 'forgive me'. This time threats and 'you cruel shits!'
Work on three recent poems.

Editorial Notes

1South-East of London eds.
2i.e. from Germany eds.