With final exams starting tomorrow, Dart didn’t study as much as he should have today. He simply didn’t feel much like it.

He ushered at church today and has an invitation, along with his parents, to go to the Burke’s house for dinner tonight. The aunts wanted them to go out to Ashtabula with them today to visit his Uncle Art, but the Petersons had to decline. Pop sleeps most of the day on Sundays, Helen uses her “day of rest” to cook and clean, and Dart begged off to study a little.

Uncle Ed and Aunt Blanche are visiting from Middletown, Ohio this week. They drove up in their brand new Chevrolet, which Dart deems “the cutest little car ever.” He thinks it must be nice to be a successful lawyer like his Uncle Ed. The soon-to-be-newlyweds have an invitation to visit Ed and Blanche at their home in Middletown as soon as they get settled.

Most of the Cleveland relatives received their wedding invitations yesterday, and the Peterson phone has been ringing off the hook. Guy and Ann are unable to attend because Ann will be delivering her baby sometime close to the wedding. Gill and Jesse’s kids have been quarantined since February! First, they all came down with chicken pox, one after the other. As soon as that scourge was over, the measles came to stay a while.

“Every time I look at those appliances Mom and Pop are giving us I get a thrill. I’m gonna love being married to you, Dot. You’re swell, and it makes me awfully glad to be collecting things with which to start our housekeeping. ”

He uses the next page and a half to say good night, comparing the feeling he has to the times when they just couldn’t bear to part from each other in order to go to their separate bedrooms. “I bet that being married will do wonders for our bedtime! (It might destroy our willingness to get up in the morning, though!)”