to Lady Diana Manners
...I find
that I miss you
most inconveniently
and the thought
of not seeing you
at champagne time
is as exasperating
as it would be
for the moth
to miss his candle
of an evening.
-Alfred Duff Cooper
photograph of Lady Diana Manners by E.O. Hoppe, 3 years before her marriage to Alfred Duff Cooper.
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