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what he will say. If he says "yes" I will beg him not to go away for over Sunday as he was going but to stay here as it will be our last chance of seeing each other.

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I could not ask him if we might be friends, something I cannot say quite what kept one from it. I saw him the next day at the Whitehouse's picnic & again that night at their dinner. We sat next each other and talked all the time.

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I asked him to stay over and come & dine with us the next night and he wavered. I worked judiciously and by the end of dinner he had made up his mind that wild horses would not drag him away until Saturday instead of Friday. They danced after dinner that night & he would come to me quite often. When he said Good night I knew it was not good bye and the message I got next morning would be that he would dine with us. And sure enough the next morning came a letter & asking me to ride with him in the afternoon. We had