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[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] direct opinion - but Afred is not a ready writer, and both have little time, 

I shall not say anything about you untill [[until]] we have all met, I hope as friends. 

And this brings me to what I wanted especially to say in answer to your letter, which I have read many times over. 

(Excuse this muitiliated [[mutilated]] page. It is very warm and I am rather thick headed)

I think I feel as you do in all. Was it not always I who spoke of our being primarily friends? When I spoke of our being together as a trial, I ment of my natural feeling for you, whether it will be