Dart is overjoyed by the news that Dot is out of the hospital. He’s proud that his fiance is so “rugged.”
He’s writing this hasty letter during a brief lunch break. He’s been working on a big gun all morning, and he and Blevins have an errand to run after lunch.
Mail delivery brought him a nice bounty today, in addition to Dot’s news about being released from the hospital. He received a package from home with a Christmas tree, baseball cap and some snacks. He’s afraid to open the snacks because of a new executive order that food cannot be prepared or consumed in unauthorized areas. He also received a home-planning questionnaire from “Better Home and Gardens,” which he’s working on in odd moments.
He’s trying to single-handedly keep the Post Office in business. Yesterday he sent several letters out to universities plus he mailed a batch of Christmas cards. He’s done all of those he can until Dot sends him the addresses of her relatives.
He can think of no new way to tell her today that he loves her, other than to say “I love you, which doesn’t satisfy him, but that’s all he has time for today.
Dot admits to being a little worried when she began to read Dart’s letter today – the one where he made two confessions. But she smelled a rat early on, and now she says any USO hostess would be a fool not to smile at him. Why, she smiles at good-looking boys all the time.
She’d love to answer his 9-page masterpiece today, but she has a huge test and must use every moment to prepare. If she can register for next semester’s classes before she leaves on Christmas break, she can get back to Kent on January 3. Otherwise, she’ll need to return on the 2nd. I’m sure she’ll want that extra day with her family, so she’ll managed to register, I’d bet.
She loves him and thinks about him every minute. Thoughts of their future together occupy the forefront of her mind every second of the day (which makes it hard to concentrate on anything else!) But to think about how much she loves him is what keeps her happy. Now she must go to class.
