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And Curt is so blind without his glasses, and Captain Lent is certainly a little mad, and I'm most distracted myse'f----" "Darling--darling--don't cry!" "Cry?
Oh, I could die, Ailsa.

Yet, I'm Southern enough to choke back eve'y tear and let them go with a smile if they had to go fo' God and the Right! But to see my Curt go this way--and my only son crazy to join him--Oh, it is ha'd, Honey-bee, ve'y, ve'y ha'd." "Dearest!" "O Honey-bud! Honey-bud!" And the two women mourned, uncomforted.
Ailsa remained for three unhappy days in Fort Greene Place, then fled to her own house.

A light, amusing letter from Berkley awaited her.