You write often, but somehow you seem remote in more senses than one.

I suppose, however, you are reading as usual, and just floating along down stream with time.

Well, no matter, dear.

You write that you are better and stronger, and have no more of your old dreadful colds.

You must spend next summer with us, even if you have to go back to Santa Barbara in the winter." Neither the shortness of his visit nor the fascinations of Miss Wildmere prevented Graydon from writing Madge a cordial note full of regret that he should not see her.