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 delicious food, the prettily laid table, and our festive clothes.

When we had reached the ice, I asked him if he did not intend to make me a speech. He answered: 'The speech is in your bouquet.'

'Am I to be satisfied with a speech in flower-language?'

'Seek and thou shalt find.'

I took up the bouquet and out fell a piece of paper. He looked quite shy when he said: 'You have even made me attempt poetry. Though as a saving grace I must add, that I have not committed the crime of verse.'

I was going to open the paper, but he asked me to wait. I was not allowed to read the speech till we were having our coffee in the other room. He asked if I liked it. I answered him, what I really felt, that he was the most wonderful poet in the world.

Which I think he is, for he is my poet. As a finish to my report of the day, I place his speech in my diary.

'I need not tell you that I love you.

'You see that in my eyes when I hold you in my arms, you hear that in my voice when I kiss your ears.

'But I will tell you why you have so completely bewitched me. It is because you came to me like Eve, the mother of humanity, came to Adam, like