In it she writes: "When you get this please sit down and count up the years that have passed since we parted.

Then think how our plans have gone awry.

You must also think of me waiting here for you in the midst of a marrying world.

All my friends have taken their mates and passed on.

I went to Doctor Franklin to-day and told him that I was an old lady well past nineteen and accused him of having a heart of stone.