"I have got to page 652 in C* & there are only 741, what shall I do when it's finished, I really never will read any more beastly books, they are only an extra complication to one's pathetic life."
"What can I read? I sit here with a vacant stare and no book."
Letters from Deborah Devonshire to Nancy Mitford, May and June 1944.
From The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley.
*"Maurice Baring, C (1924). A popular saga of Edwardian Society."