P. S. I am most impatiently waiting for letters—but they’ll come tomorrow Ⓐemendation .

One more day nearly gone, my darling! How the time does drag along! Nine more days & then I sail.1explanatory note But I have a plan born of this separation. It is this. I mean to leave home for 48 hours, every month, so as to have the rich joy of getting back again constantly repeated. How does that strike you? However, I don’t mean to begin it until after next May. I want to be with you & take care of you up to that time.2explanatory note It is a dreary day—drilzzling Ⓐemendationrain—but I do love you. Don’t you ever stir out alone, day or night, my child, & don’t you ever allow Downey3explanatory note to be out of the house later than 10 at night. I would rather he were in earlier than that. I do love you, my darling.