I am all ready.

Can't you telegraph me, so I can go soon?
With grateful thanks, I am yours very sincerely, AZALEA THORPE.
"Well," said Bill, "what do you think of that for a letter ?" He looked thoughtfully at Patty, as he spoke.
"Why," she hesitated,--"I think it's a very nice letter--" "Wait, now,--be honest!" "Well, I--oh, I don't know,--but I looked for a little more--simplicity, I guess.

This sounds as if she had resorted to a 'Complete Letter-Writer' for help." "Just what I thought, exactly! But I don't know as we can blame her if she did.

The poor child is doubtless unversed in polite correspondence, and she did her best,--but she felt she needed a little more elegance of construction and so forth, and she picked out some dressy phrases from the book." "It doesn't matter, anyway," said Patty, generously, "she's glad to come, and so I'm glad to have her.

Let's telegraph at once,--shall us ?" "Yes; but I don't like that haste of hers.