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your plans, I cannot speak to her, for when I do speak it will commit you and me to definite days, for she rents her rooms at the cottage which the fire spared two years ago, and people make their plans so long before hand, that we shall have to make our plans too before very long. All of which I see is difficult, for you say, that the time of the ceremony is not yet fixed.  Of course the Indian does not realize that one day makes any difference from another, so that you can hardly interfere with his mind as to dates.

Then too if the weather should turn very warm it will be difficult to be here. But the first thing to do is to keep watch of the Indian, and to hope that the Ceremony will take place early — either in May or early June. When you write, let me know what you now