It was so kind to write moe what a delightful time -you were having on your vacation and so sweet of you to hope that I shouldn't catch cholera or be prostrated by the heat, Thank you dear, I am carrying on very well and in spite of your thoughtful suggestions I must say T'yo never felt better. 2 It's a great load off my mind though, dear, to feel that you are up in a rest cure. I don't know that this is just the name for it, but it certainly isn't one's usual idea of a summer resort now is it? One man was saying to me last night that ho thought married men liked their wives to go up there because it was so difficult to get away from they wouldn't be coming down to town unexpectedly and spoiling their parties. Not that Carruthers would feel that way about it of course, but there are some!
As I was saying, it does seem fortunate that you can be in the country and get back some strength. You certainly were looking dragged out the last two evenings I saw you at the Astor before you left. I suppose not being used to going out so much, it has worn on you since you left the office. I remember last summer when we were working in the same department you seemed to stand the heat all right, quite as well as I did. But of course you didn't go out every evening the way I always do. I used to think sometimes that it would be nice to be unpopular so that I'd have a chance to make up some sleep.
It's worse than ever now because some of the girls ara away on vacations and thave's hardly a wife in town. You should see the husbands in stag parties and making extra men in any party they can get themselves invited to. I haven't happened to ses Carruthers but of course I only go to the Carlton or Astor or perhaps to the Palace roof and I understand that Shanghai widowers find those a little slow at times. Not that I think you need to worry about Carruthers, but of course you can't be certain.
It was darling of you to suggest that I coma up to the mountains and get a little colour. As you might have remembered, I always get all my colour from the same 2
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