How odd these Americans are, with their money, and talent, and independence! O my dear, I must not forget to tell you the great event of my first season.

I am to be presented at the next Drawing Room! Think how absorbed I must be in preparation for this grand affair.

Mamma is resolved that I shall do her credit, and we have spent the last two weeks driving about from milliners to mantua-makers, from merchants to jewellers.

I am to wear white satin and plumes, pearls and roses.

My dress will cost a hundred pounds or more, and is very elegant.
My cousins and friends lavish lovely things upon me, and you will open your unsophisticated eyes when I display my silks and laces, trinkets and French hats, not to mention billet deux, photographs, and other relics of a young belle's first season.
You ask if I ever think of home.