16 June

My dear romantic boy has written to me at last! He apologized so sweetly for failing to write more often but says that he has missed me *desperately* and is entirely *determined*to find some way to me at once. He says he got in hardly any scrapes at all on his journey and that he will tell me all the details soon. He says that Uncle Jack is not at all saving him from any scrapes—that Uncle Jack is merely spying on poor Ernest, but also attending to his philanthropies.

Oh I am so *relieved* that my dear sweet love is home!