(I asked Nellie, and Nellie said she guessed she was thirty-five, but she didn't look a day over twenty-five.) And she _is_ pretty, and everybody loves her.

I think even Father likes to have her around better than he did his own sister Jane, for he sometimes stays around quite a lot now--after meals, and in the evening, I mean.

And that's what I told Mother.

Oh, of course, he still likes his stars the best of anything, but not quite as well as he used to, maybe--not to give _all_ his time to them.
I haven't anything especial to write.

I'm just having a beautiful time.