"The conductor will see that you change at the junction and don't forget that you get out at Quantos.
"My ranch is so clean that it doesn't know itself, and some of my cowboys are laying in a stock of new collars in honor of your arrival. But none of them can compare with the pleasure that I get out of every minute of the day when I think that you will soon be with me.
"Your affectionate nephew and brother,
"TOM."
Janet held up her envelope and shook it. Tickets, yards long it seemed, fell out on to the table cloth.
"We are really going," they said together, and they looked straight into each other's eyes across the table.
Perhaps they saw the joys of the coming summer, mirrored in their brown depths. Who knows?