I am sorry I troubled her so much.
"Tell Melinda Jones, and James and John, that I remember all their kindness, and thank them so much.

And Eunice, too.

She was good to me, always.

And oh! Andy, please get word somehow to dear Aunt Barbara that her lost Ethie is well, and so sorry to give her pain, as I know I do.

I would write to her myself, but I am afraid she blames me for going away and bringing a kind of disgrace upon her and Aunt Van Buren.