I've not told you before of our breath-taking plan, lest it not come true!
What did you dream, Poet, and will you not tell me the Secret?
Gratefully yours,
An Impatient Invalid
P.S. Paul, Fiametta, Alice, and other of your intimates, wish to be affectionately remembered. And Peter wants to know if you are by chance a Scout. It is the ambition of his life to attain the age of twelve and his modern knighthood.
New York City
August 9th
Kind Princess:
Your letter of the seventh has reached me. It must have crossed mine. I began to feel happier directly I had written. So I must have known that you were writing too! Thank you for absolving me!
Your news is good news indeed! But I must know who is to have the joy of carrying you out into the sunshine, which is your birthright. The Old Unpleasant Doctor? The Young and even More Unpleasant Doctor?
I think perhaps you had better arrange to have your father play magician!
I have had a letter from my mother. There's a message for you in it. Obediently, I quote: