Dart begins his letter with the question that torments him: “Why in  —- can’t I get home before you leave?” He hates the thought of her being so far away.

At this moment, he is listening to Eddie Cantor over the P. A. system. He’s broadcasting from an auditorium outside the window of Dart’s ward. When he performed earlier in the day, Dart went to the craft room instead. I guess he’s not a big Eddie Cantor fan.

The doctor saw Dot’s picture today and read the inscription she’d written. He looked at Dart and said “She sure hasn’t been around much, has she?” That’s certainly true, but how could he tell? Dart says this doctor’s favorite expressions are “God damn” and “What the hell,” which he uses as other people might use “gosh” or “holy smokes.”

He has to turn in now because the head nurse is angry at the ward for not getting to bed on time. He still is not allowed to sit, so his feet hurt by days’ end. He writes that he’ll love her forever. That would be Dot, not the nurse!)

Dot writes a sweetly sentimental letter here – mostly for her beloved Andrews School. She and Andy went for a walk after dinner and ended up climbing a tree near the pond. They stayed there for a long time, talking about the men in their lives. Dot realized how much she would miss all the girls who had become like family to her.

She wrote “It was so peaceful and quiet on the campus here, that it seemed almost impossible that in countries less fortunate than the United States, innocent people are being bombed unmercifully.”

She accepts Dart’s offer to write an outline for her philosophy. She had to turn her own outline in today, but she welcomes his, anyway.

She tells Dart in lovely detail about the final ceremony at Andrews before the seniors leave campus to begin their work assignments. She writes of the “sing-out,” a solemn, candlelight ceremony when the class history and prophecies are read. The junior and senior classes sing to each other and the whole thing is followed by a tea. Family and friends are invited to participate. Because her family lives so far away and is unable to attend, she was thinking of inviting the Petersons.

She recalls the feelings of receiving that first letter from Dart, Now, 135 letters later, the feelings have only grown. She vows to love him forever. It seems they are in agreement on that score – as in most things of importance.