Egleston: I think the Play is perfectly
wonderfull. And you are perfectly splendid in it. It is
perfectly terrable that it is going to stop.
"(Signed) The girl of the
rose."
I know that this seems bold. But I did not feel bold, dear
Dairy. It was such a letter as any one might read, and contained
nothing compromizing. Still, I darsay I should not have written
it. But "out of the fulness of the Heart the mouth speaketh."
I was shaking so much that I could not give it to the
usher. But Jane did. However, I had sealed it up in an envelope.
Now comes the real surprize, dear Dairy. For the usher came
down and said Mr. Egleston hoped I would go back and see him
after the act was over. I think a paller must have come over me,
and Jane said:
"Bab! Do you dare?"
I said yes, I dared, but that I would like a glass of
water. I seemed to be thirsty all the time. So she got it, and
I recovered my _savoir fair_, and stopped shaking.
I suppose Jane expected to go along, but I refrained from
asking her. She then said:
"Try to remember everything he says, Bab.
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