Thursday 26th March 1936

Played truant from the Poly. Wandered in Windsor Forest with Gwyneth Elaine. We discovered a fire burning in the woods. We sat down close together on a log and watched the flames. There was a rude wind-shelter. Very slowly, very lazily, very sleepily, we drifted into kisses. We said we loved. (There are brief moments when we do! Precious moments.)

A strange thing, the physical emotion love. Thought I’d got out of the habit.