Mina, pray for my happiness.
Lucy.
P.S .-- I need not tell you this is a secret.
Goodnight again.L.
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY.
24 May.
My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter.

It was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy.
My dear, it never rains but it pours.

How true the old proverbs are.

Here am I, who shall be twenty in September, and yet I never had a proposal till today, not a real proposal, and today I had three.

Just fancy! Three proposals in one day! Isn't it awful! I feel sorry, really and truly sorry, for two of the poor fellows.
Oh, Mina, I am so happy that I don't know what to do with myself.
And three proposals! But, for goodness' sake, don't tell any of the girls, or they would be getting all sorts of extravagant ideas, and imagining themselves injured and slighted if in their very first day at home they did not get six at least.