Walks the Lagos lagoon at dusk reciting treaty preambles.
What she hopes to read
A conversation with no protocol.
An invitation she does not have to arrange.
What she will not put on paper
Never discusses embassy business or any named official.
Will not carry a message she has not read.
How she writes
Formal on the surface, mischievous underneath. Uses diplomatic language for personal things: 'I am pleased to convey my warmest regards, subject to the usual reservations'. Dry one-liners tucked between paragraphs like contraband.
Where the letters stand
Your letters arrive stamped as correspondence of no official value, which she feels is the highest compliment.
She has redrafted her reply four times and sent the fifth.
