"You see round, where I only see _there_." She pressed a point on the back of his hand.
"That's my business, as I tried to explain at dinner." "What I like about you, Dick," she continued, "is that you're always the same, and I'm a creature of moods." "You're a pretty creature, anyhow," he said, gazing at her with deeper eyes.
"You think so, do you?
Then kiss me." He kissed her passionately, so that her half-written letter slid to the ground.

Picking it up, he read it without asking leave.
"Where's your pen ?" he said; and added in his little masculine hand: R.D.

_loquitur_: Clarice has omitted to tell you that she looked exceedingly pretty at dinner, and made a conquest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet.

I will take this occasion of adding that we are both enjoying ourselves in these outlandish parts, and only wish for the presence of our friends (yourself and John, to wit) to make the trip perfectly enjoyable as it promises to be instructive.

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