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the hour or two which I have free from
interruption in the afternoons. Don't
laugh at me dear, I really am
interested, and the hrs. I have spent
over this scribbling have been my happiest
since I came here.

I wish thee could hear the sweet
chorus of birds which wake me up
every morning, early too, and then
Jeannot comes boucing into bed, and
tells me how much he loves me. His
little heart seems bursting with
affection. Mrs. Richd Bentley is
coming up today with her little baby
a few months old - I shall practice
the art of holding etc. have quite
forgotten how - in fact don't know
anything about anything less stiff
than a maillot. I don't show any
more than I did with J. Thee
sees I enlarge all over me that is

the reason I am not one of these
spectacles which always offend my
aesthetic senses when I meet them
walking on the street. Joe and the
children came to spend yesterday
here. Joe's enthusiasm over some
aerobalic performance which he
saw at the Bijou in Richmond
last week was almost pathetic to
me. Think how old he is, and how
narrow his experience has been.

Father said this morning at breakfast
"I shall tell Milton that I think he
ought to come and see you." Well father
I answered if Milton feels he can leave
his work he will come, if he don't only
some real necessity would bring him,"
whereupon Father remarked "How loyal you
are to Milton, Margie, I like to see
it, strength his in loyalty." Father
astonishes me at times. He has so
often told me how glad he is to have
us here, and his love for Jean is