When she came to addressing it she was uncertain, but at last she hit upon a scheme of sending it in the care of Nicholson and Snow because Marian had told her that she meant to enter their contest immediately she reached San Francisco, and she would have left them her address.

On the last reading of the letter she had written, she decided that it was a manly, straightforward production, which should interest and attract any girl.

But how was she to sign it?
After thinking deeply for a long time, she wrote "Philip Sanders, General Delivery," and below she added a postscript: To save you the trouble of inquiring among your friends as to who Philip Sanders is, I might as well tell you in the beginning that he isn't.

He is merely an assumption under which I shall hide my personality until you let me know whether it is possible that you could become even slightly interested in me, as a small return for the very deep and wholesome interest abiding in my heart for you.
"Abiding," said Linda aloud.

"It seems to me that there is nothing in all the world quite so fine as a word.