Today brings a short message from Dart. He was examined again by several doctors and they seem to know what’s wrong with him. They also know what should have been done in his first surgery. They just don’t know what to do about fixing the problem.
He wrote that he hoped no one had pinched her to awaken her from her perfect dream week. “An angel like you, even though she’s slightly frolicsome at times, deserves the best, always,” he said.
He’s glad she gets to go home 24 hours earlier and wishes her a lovely visit. He says he’ll write his next letters to her Connecticut address so they’ll be waiting for her when she gets there. He closes by saying he hopes she surprises herself tomorrow night and has more fun at the formal than she anticipates.
A momentous letter from Dot that stretches over several days. The first day is a direct response to his two letters. She’s happy his days fly by while he’s in the hospital. She thinks his Marine friend must be quite a character to have made such an impression on Dart. She still has not answered the letter from a Marine who wrote to her because Dart creates such a delightful distraction. She leaves for home in a few days and still has a play to write. Her Christmas package to him may be a little late because she’ll make the fudge at home and mail it from there. Finally, she hopes the class picture she sends him is not so awful that it causes him to have a relapse.
On the 18th, she writes an awe-filled letter, thanking him for the beautiful corsage he sent her to wear at the formal that night. She was the envy of all the girls and even the house mother was impressed. She kept telling people all night, “Dorothy’s date is here in spirit – just look at that beautiful corsage he sent her!” Dot says she cried like a baby when she first saw them and that she had never realized there were boys on this earth as thoughtful as he is. She confesses that it might be true what the girls have been telling her for weeks – that she loves him. Phew!
She dashes off a couple more paragraphs over the next couple of days, mostly apologizing for the long delay in getting the letter mailed and a hurried explanation of how busy she has been.
