Some ladies when they lose their complexion paint.

Horrid, isn't it?
I wonder they can do such a thing." She eyed Elspeth suspiciously.

"But of course you might do it just a little," she said, pleadingly--"just to make them go on loving you, don't you think?
"When they don't want to come any more they write you a letter, and you run with it to your room and kiss it, because you don't know what is inside.

Then you open it, and that breaks your heart, you know." She nodded her head sagaciously and smiled with tears in her eyes.

"Never, never, never open the letter.