ious revolutionary merry-go-rounds--things
are in order at last, and little Dolores Tristeza starts me-ward as
soon as a suitable traveling companion can be found. I must admit
I'm a little aghast. Six months ago, I yearned to have her as a prop
for my spinsterhood, but that Dark Age is about to be folded by. Of
course I must stand by what I've said, and I want to, but I've
answered _Senor_ Morales, explaining my approaching marriage and
that I would send for Dolores in the early fall (perhaps Michael
Daragh and I can go and get her!) and inclosing a fat check for her
maintenance in the meantime.

But isn't it rather a comedy situation? A big little daughter
suddenly bestowed upon a busy bride-elect! But she is an angel, and
I'll adore having her, just as soon as I get used to the idea again.

Love and warmest wishes to your mother, and I'm sending her some
books.

Devotedly,

JANE.

_New York City,
May Twenty-seventh._

OLD DEAR,

So glad your mother is even a wee bit better! House and clothes are
coming on famously but I'm rather rebellious at not having more of M.
D.'s time. My life work will be to drag him down from his pinnacle of
selflessness! His chief concern just now is for his brilliant young
dope fiend, and I really shouldn't begrudge M.D. to him, for if we
hadn't had supper with him that night, and gone uptown in the subway,
who knows if I'd ever have won my elusive swain? Randal is doing
fairly well, as regards the drug, and making some corking sketches
for our joint calendar, but he needs a world of cheering and
chumminess and countenance.

But one would like a little less of him, a little more of one's
lover.

Rather crossly,

J.

_Friday Morning._

Sally, dear, another letter has come from Mexico, and Dolores
Tristeza is on her way! A highly proper geologist was returning to
New York, and they dared not miss so excellent an opportunity of
sending her.

And she'll be here day after to-morrow! I find myself rather gasping!
I must telephone the steamship office, and I'll close this later.

_Next Evening._

She will arrive on the _Pearl of Peru_ at about three P.M. to-morrow,
and M.D. is going with me to meet her. He is dear about it all, and
so am I, now that I've got my breath! I'm remembering what a