I do hope _that_ will amount to something! * * * * * _August first._ It hasn't, so far--I mean vacation.

Really, what a world of disappointment this is! How on earth I'm going to stand being Mary for three months more I don't know.

But I've got to, I suppose.

I've been here May, June, and July; and that leaves August, September, and October yet to come.

And when I think of Mother and Boston and Marie, and the darling good times down there where you're really _wanted_, I am simply crazy.
If Father wanted me, really wanted me, I wouldn't care a bit.