I do not want to leave your letter unanswered. I do hope we can come later, we were awfully disappointed, too. Forgive me—I've nothing to say. This is just a friendly way I love to think of you at Asheham.

My mother has died. I can't think of anything else. Ah, Virginia, she was such an exquisite little being, far too fragile and lovely to be dead for ever more.