h of your hand. To think that I do not
know your name, or the colour of your kind eyes!
Say that I may come?

"Devotedly,
"JARVIS."

"JARVIS, MY BIG BOY: You may not come yet. It is part of a dream,
cherished since you came to be the heart of me, that we should not come
together until the night of the opening of our play. I know you will
poohpooh this as sentimental nonsense. You may even call it theatrical.
But let me have my way, this last one time. Afterward, my way shall be
yours, beloved. Write me to say you will be patient with my foolishness!

"I am afraid of our meeting. Suppose I should fall short of your ideal
of me? That you should think me ugly or old, I could not bear it. I have
come to know all my happiness lies in the balance of that one night,
toward which we walk, you and I, every minute of every day.

"YOUR LADY."

His answer came, special delivery:

"It shall be as you wish, dear heart. But if anything should happen to
delay the opening of the play, I think I should ask you to remit the
sentence of banishment. I live only to look into your eyes!

"How can you say that you may disappoint me? If you were old,
humpbacked, ugly--what difference? You are mine! We must find freedom
for ourselves and a new life. I adore you.

"JARVIS."

"I wouldn't have thought it of Jarvis," said Bambi as she read it. "He
makes a very creditable lover."

"My DEAR ONE: I am as impatient as you are for our meeting. I gladly
agree that we shall bring it about, at once, if anything happens to
postpone the play opening.

"What you say about being indifferent to my looks makes me happy. I
shall not try you too far, my lover. I'm quite pretty and young. Did you
know I was young?

"You speak so confidently of freedom and a new life together. Are we to
shed our old mates, like Nautilus shells? My new coming into love makes
me pitiful. Must we be ruthless?

"YOUR OWN."

"DEAR, GENTLE HEART: I do not wish to seem ruthless to you, much less to
be so. But has our suffering not entitled us to some joy? I know my wife
to be absorbed in another man; you say your husband turns to another
woman. We represent to them stumbling-blocks between them and their
happiness. Surely it is only right that we should all be freed to find
ou