16/19 But I shall fall asleep to-night. I have kept awake for two nights. I am very tired." He had fallen asleep even before the letter was completed. There was a message for the boy and a wish: "May he meet a woman like you, my dear, when his time comes, and love her as I love you," and again came the phrase, "I am very tired." It spoke of the boy's school, and continued: "Whether he will come out here it is too early to think about. |