I know that you have been taught all this by the kind friends who have watched over you from infancy.

Your father wants you to give good heed to their counsel, and ever watch and pray and struggle against temptation.

No blow could fall on him so sore as to know his little darling was walking in the wrong path.

May you never so grieve his fond heart.

Again I must tell you, though you have read it in his repeated caresses, how your father loves you.