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or we will come to blows.

Thats the way you get out of a straightforward answer. Oh what are we talking about anyway.

Go on I am listening, what else has been happening to you.

[[underlined]] March 21st 1895. [[/underlined]].

We have been so busy lately that I have not had time even to tell you that I still exist. Tuesday we left Nice for Genoa and this noon left there for this place Florence. Mails have come. That is one has since last I wrote, & am really glad now that Mr S. will not write. Esther dear girl is faithful and Alfred confided in me so I 

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am happy.

Dearest Gladys seems to love me more every day. If it were possible to love more my affection for her would be increasing but it is not. My whole heart and soul are wrapped up in her, I sometimes think that is why I don't care more for Esther. Oh I wish I did, I wish I could, but its impossibly. I really try and when we are together a great deal I think I really do love her, but when we are separated - that is the test - I find my heart is not always warm, sometimes for a day or so she does not come into my thoughts. I would not dare confess this to any one but you.