I hope you will like it a little for my sake.

Dear Katy, I send so much love with it.
I have only seen the Pages in the street since they came home from Europe; but the last piece of news here is Lilly's engagement to Comte Ernest de Conflans.

He has something to do with the French legation in Washington, I believe; and they crossed in the same steamer.

I saw him driving with her the other day,--a little man, not handsome, and very dark.

I do not know when they are to be married.