Time & Perspective Quote by Marie Corelli

Weather, in Corelli's hands, isn't small talk; it's a subtle flex. The line opens with a teasing astonishment at London's lack of sunshine, a little needle aimed at the metropolis and whoever is stuck in it. "Fancy your having..". carries the cadence of intimate correspondence, the kind where affection gets to wear the mask of mock disbelief. She positions herself elsewhere - not just geographically, but atmospherically - in a pocket of "full summer" that sounds like privilege, luck, or even moral reward.

The scene then pivots inward: window wide open, late enough to "sit up", and the night filled with "the discourse of two amorous thrushes". That word, discourse, is doing delicious work. Thrushes don't merely sing; they converse. Corelli humanizes nature without turning it into greeting-card sentiment. The birds become stand-ins for what the letter itself is: flirtation, exchange, the pleasure of being addressed. "Amorous" sets the temperature. It's not pastoral innocence; it's a lightly erotic soundscape, a reminder that desire is part of the natural order.

Context matters: Corelli was a wildly popular, often-dismissed novelist who understood performance and audience. This is a private moment written with public instincts, staging sensitivity as social capital. London is gray and airless; she has light, air, and a soundtrack. It's a miniature manifesto for her brand of melodious intensity: the world is most alive when you are receptive enough to hear it talk back.