Review: Short and sweet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2012
I have read this short story several times now and it never fails to wring a tear from my eye.Two lonely, heart-sick people, bought together by the sheer luck of him finding her letter.Elizabeth, a 36yr old spinster who considers herself quite plain, is shaken into depression by the return of her ex-beau, now a Major, from the wars 11 years later.  He virtually ignores her and starts courting her 18yr old niece.She writes all her miseries down in a letter and leaves it under a rock, under a tree in a park some distance from her home.Along comes Adam, also returned from the war badly scarred and hiding from society, he happens across the letter. He takes it home and reads it and decides to reply.So starts a correspondence which quickly resolves into a love between the two.It is quite short, 67 pages, less than an hour to read. But it is a nicely complete story.  You'll have a couple of tears along the way but end up with a warm smile on your face.