Dart’s brief note is in response to a letter he got from Dot on “garish yellow paper,” which she had warned him was coming some time ago. He confessed that the Catholic girl who corresponds with him has used the exact same paper.

He teased Dot gently about  witholding the truth about her feelings for Dart from her parents and wonders if she has yet told them the “gruesome truth.”  He adds that Dot is not the first girl he’s known who was a self-described “man-hater.” He says that all but two of them are now either married or engaged. The two “holdouts” are a Marine and a nun! He says, “I’m glad you changed you mind, and hope that as long as I know you, you’ll never change it back again!”

He includes some funny schtick about how he gets when he has a case of “heart burn” (caused by playing with fire, romantically).

He asks her to forgive his dribble and explains that he has no news. He simple wrote so that he could send her his love.