"I hope you'll come home right away.

We want to see SOMETHING of you before you go away again, and you know the schools will be opening soon.
"By the way, it has just occurred to me as I write that perhaps, after all, you won't have to go quite away.

There are plenty of good schools for young ladies right in and near Boston, which I am sure you could attend, and still live at home.

Suppose you come back then as soon as you can, and we'll talk it up.

And that reminds me, I wonder how Spunk will get along with Spunkie.