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tell me, it is better for me to know, I am sure.  Of course if you said "no, no one could care" it would make me unhappy, terribly so, but I would become used to the idea in time.  I trust you so much that I know you will not deceive me.  Oh Harry I feel as if no one in all the world would care for me, speak to me or be nice to me if I were not - Miss Vanderbilt.  You will tell me the truth, won't you?  Excuse all this wondering, I meant only to ask you the question and leave the rest to
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your imagination.  That was impossible.
Your true friend
Gertrude".
Of course that is impossible, besides I would not want to ask such a thing.  It would sound funny to say the least, and rather fishing.
Imagination.
Dearest -.
When your letter came to-day and I read it my mind was in such a whirl that for a a few minutes I had but one thought, and that was: "He loves me".  You were already my [[?]]