You know he was with mamma and me in England, and since his return has effected everything English, and looks quite like the _dude_ of the period.

He, too, seems interested in your return; and I don't know but you might be mistress of Tracy Park, if you could fancy the incumbrance.

Dick St.Claire is going to Vassar to see you and Nina graduate; and Harold, too, if he possibly can.
He is very busy just now with something he must finish, and perhaps he cannot be there.

Tom is going, and Fred Raymond, and Billy Peterkin--quite a turn-out from Shannondale.
'I can hardly wait to see you.

Only think, it is almost two years since I said good-bye; for we went to Europe just after Harold was graduated, and your last Christmas holidays were over before we came home.
'What a long letter I have written you, and have not told you a word of my health, about which you inquired so particularly.