A CORRECT LETTER TO A BEARDED LADY
My dear Mrs. Lenox:
I wonder if you would care to go with us to the opera Wednesday
evening? The Cromwells have offered us their box for that night,
which accounts for our selection of that particular evening.
“Beggars cannot be choosers,” and while personally we would all
rather go on some other night, yet it is perhaps best that we do
not refuse the Cromwells’ generous offer. Then, too, Wednesday is
really the only evening that my husband and I are free to go, for
the children take so much of our time on other nights. I do hope,
therefore, that you can go with us Wednesday to hear “The Barber
of Seville.”
Sincerely,
Esther G. (Mrs. Thomas D.) Franklin.