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me very much or not at all and that set me thinking that perhaps you were not certain of yourself and wanted a test. Now what I want to know is [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] Do you love me as much when you don't see me? And am I getting a little dim in your memory?

The more I look at that spot down in the woods the better I like it as a building site. When some of the trees are cleared off it will make a very nice spot and will give a view of the river. It would make a house practically in the woods and on the top of a hill which is plainly visible now that all the leaves are off. It appears that Thad has had his eye on it for some time and one day he climbed a tree to see what view he could get and was quite pleased at the prospect; but I'll get it all right. It could be terraced in front a little and could have sort of a winding roadway coming up to it from the river road. I am getting so excited about it.

I hate this business of packing and changing about. It seems such a nuisance somehow. And when I came to get the stuff out of my studio in Newburgh which was an accumulation of two years it seem an awful task