Dart hints in the opening paragraph of good news awaiting Dot later in this letter. Then, he starts on a point-by-point response to her recent letters.

Near the end of the second page, he gets to the crux of things. He still refuses to tell her the bad news he alluded to yesterday, but he has two bits of positive information to report. The first is that he was up and about today and his leg seems to be better. Now he can focus very hard on getting well so that he might be able to see her before she leaves Ohio for several months in about a month. He also reported that he received a more than $80 refund from the IRS – big money in 1944!

Dot thanks Dart for telling him what Cathie wrote. She finds it much easier to write about such feelings than to say them face-to-face. She hopes like anything that she’ll get to see him soon, but if she is too shy to tell him what’s in her heart, she hopes her letters have made it clear. She is so eager for him to get home for a visit, and doesn’t want to be disappointed.

She writes that she likes his sense of humor because it tends to run to the sarcastic side – just like hers.

She confesses to hating her job assignment as manager of the school store, and she admits that she feels like “blazes.” She’s not asking for sympathy from him – she just needs to get some sleep. And she wants Dart to come home!