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chance for a serious talk has come yet.

When I told your Grandmother that I had advised you to stay longer, she wasn't a bit surprised,- has evidently been prepared for something of the kind in her own mind,- & seemed to take the full force of all the reasons. No time has been mentioned,- & I don't think it wise to tell her that I don't expect you for another year, if the family "status" continues as at present. She seems to get at "things" & "situations", without being told. From several little remarks she has made, I feel sure that she would not be surprised if I told her all that you wrote me about Mr. B.- & I think she has prepared Aunt Eliza on that subject, too, so that you can now announce any decision you may make, without fear of any domestic disturbances or of awakening any feeling that you would object to. I think all that has passed away. I hope to hear that you have completed your plans for Italy with May & Miss Boyer, all 3 of you. You have money enough with Drexel to pay your own and May's expenses for the trip, & back to Paris & there I can send you the additional credits. I wish you would tell Mrs. Conant & her daughter how pleased we have all been with your summer co-operation with them, & that we feel greatly indebted to them for your passing those months in Brittany under circumstances so satisfactory to our old fashioned feelings. For it was a great relief to us, you know. Love to May -