I won't offend you more than I can help.

At any rate he won't be there.

And if I don't see you there, where am I to see you?
If I were you I would certainly not go to Cheltenham.

You are never happy there.
Do you ever dream of the river at Basle?
I do;--so often.
Most affectionately yours, KATE VAVASOR.
Alice had almost lost the sensation created by the former portion of Kate's letter by the fun of the latter, before she had quite made that sensation her own.

The picture of the Cambridgeshire Eden would have displeased her had she dwelt upon it, and the allusion to the cream and toast would have had the very opposite effect to that which Kate had intended.