I think that's very clear indeed, and can only get a good dialogue going with the Monsieur.


PS - a big thank you to Clevernick, from whom I cleverly nicked the bit about cutting out being the only thing under his control! Note, I didn't tell him it was someone else's idea... sorry, no citation in this world!
Flattery will get you everywhere!

By the way, Moptop, I can see you were in a very different mental space when you wrote your letter. It's almost like a different person wrote the paragraphs after it. Your letter was written with, may I say, a formal French accent to the writing, which comes through even in English. (Or did you translate?)

And then your perfectly colloquial English afterward when talking to us makes a fun and cute contrast.

The difference tells me of the special private space you go to when you think of your Monsieur. If he saw both bits of writing I know he would understand it too.

Wishing you all the best!