Dearest Knight:

I languish a little, but not much. I’m writing a play out of “Idylls of the King.” I wish you would be Launcelot, Tommy Page could be Merlin. I knew you would understand about the Amazon and horse. I’m glad you liked the . . .

“How do you spell breeches, Wally?”

“What?”

Breeches.

“B-r-e-e-c-h-e-s. What are you saying about them?” he inquired, coming to look over her shoulder.

“This is private,” she said, and wrote:

. . . breeches. Wally did not mind your license. He thought you ought to have it. The police are so crooel.

Your loving friend,

Isabelle.