With Dart traveling back to Cleveland today, Dot is the only one who is able to get a letter written. Having heard nothing from Dart for a couple of days, she can only assume he’s enjoying a long-awaited evening at home.

She’s looking forward to just a half day at Franklin Simons tomorrow. Then she realizes that she’ll fill the other half of the day with cleaning and ironing at home!  She tells Dart he has her sympathy, having to wash all of his clothes by hand. Her mother washes the family laundry in the machine, but Dot has to iron everything. She feels dreadfully overworked. “To hear Dad talk, you’d think I went swimming all day when the truth of the matter is, I haven’t been once this whole year! I have a hard life!”

She concludes by writing, “This letter isn’t very long, but congratulate me; I haven’t said one thing about how you should spend your leave. I’ve got my ideas, tho’. I s’pose they’re the kind that materialize only in movies.”