Excerpted from Christopher Morley’s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure
DECEMBER 13, SUN. 1931
He was unwilling that I should leave him; and when I looked at my watch, and told him it was twelve o’clock, he cried “What’s that to you and me?” and ordered Frank to tell Mrs. Williams that we were coming to drink tea with her, which we did … he every night drank tea with her, however late it might be, and she always sat up for him. This was not alone a proof of his regard for her, but of his own unwillingness to go into solitude, before that unseasonable hour at which he had habituated himself to expect the oblivion of repose.
— BOSWELL, Life of Johnson
See why I love this Book of Days? This ain’t no “if you love something set it free” compilation.
Yes, I think I see … But will need to check other posts to get the drift …
A Book of Days for 1931: May 25
Christopher Morley was a journalist and essayist who is probably mainly known for his passion for Sherlock Holmes, but it was a long and fruitful career, he wrote the novel Kitty Foyle, the film version of which gave Ginger Rogers…