I know, too, that you are no fool, and by this time you must have digested my first letter, and if you have you are not blaming me as much as you did in the beginning.
"I have talked this over with Betty, and she is of the opinion that as you have thus far obeyed my wishes you should be permitted to have a free hand henceforth, for she insists that perhaps by this time the restraint she has put on you will have resulted in you hating her, and in that case she says she will not care to remain here any longer.

But as I have said, I do not think you are a fool, and nobody but a fool could hate Betty.

So I have persuaded her that even if you should come to look upon her in that light she owes it to me to stay until the conditions are fulfilled.
"It is my own hope that by this time you have made friends with her.
Perhaps--I am not going to offer you any advice, but Betty is a jewel, and you might do worse.

You probably will if you haven't sense enough to take her--if you can get her.

I have given her your picture, and she likes you in spite of the reputation I have given you.