Everybody was seated already so I squatted down on the floor in front of Mrs.De Koven and a tall woman in a brocade gown cut like a Japanese woman's-- It was very dark where the audience was, so I could not see her face but when the pantomime was over I looked up and saw it was Yvette Guilbert.

So I grabbed Mrs.De Koven and told her to present me and Guilbert said in English-- "It is not comfortable on the floor is it ?" and I said, "I have been at your feet for three years now, so I am quite used to it"-- for which I was much applauded-- Afterwards I told some one to tell her in French that I had written a book about Paris and about her and that I was going to mark it and send it and before the woman could translate, Guilbert said, "No, send me the Van Bippere book"-- So we asked her what she meant and she said, " M.Bourget told me to meet you and to read your Van Bippere Book, you are Mr.Davis, are you not ?"-- So after that I owned the place and refused to meet Mrs.Vanderbilt.
Yvette has offered to teach me French, so I guess I won't go to Somerset's wedding, unless O---- scares me out of the country.

I got my $2,000 check and have paid all my debts.

They were not a third as much as I thought they were, so that's all right.
Do come over mother, as soon as you can and we will meet at Jersey City, and have a nice lunch and a good talk.

Give my bestest love to Dad and Nora.