“I often wonder how we’ll exist until June 20, or seven days earlier when I expect to be seeing you next.”

Dart was out of bed all day today, but his mother is home with the flu. He’ll return to school on Wednesday, just in time to get loaded up with school work for next week, when the school vacation starts. He was hoping to buy a ticket to Greenwich and surprise Dot at home, but the $30 is too valuable and scarce these days. He’ll also need the time for school work.

As per her request, he will look around Cleveland for a white Bible for her to carry for the wedding. If she finds one in Greenwich, will she let him know? Also, will she find out if he can rent black patent shoes in her part of the world. He doesn’t think he can do that in Cleveland. If he has to buy a pair, that means he’ll need to forego something else he really needs.

He’s proud of her thriftiness in acquiring so much of their everyday flatware with box tops., telling her it’s a “swell idea.”

He’s very content with the “blanket exchange.” He’s been sleeping under the blanket she left in Cleveland, but he wonders if the blanket misses its former bed companion as much as he does.

He comments on Dot’s news about her friends from Kent. He wonders how Ellie and her beau have managed not to have a baby yet, and he asks if Janie left Kent State.

There’s a mighty wind raging outside which somehow makes him miss Dot more. He’s so lonesome for her that all he can think about is that which should not be talked about. “Can’t say it. Gotta do it!”

He cautions her to take care of her cold and don’t let it turn into flu.