Dot is the sole correspondant today. And she opens with her favorite topic – English. She should be studying tonight, but she’d rather write to Dart. Besides, she’s irritated with her professor, Miss Garrett. After Dot spent three hours last night writing a seven-page paper, the professor didn’t even ask the students to hand it in today!

It hurts her to think that exactly one week ago, she was talking to Dart on the phone. She quotes a Longfellow poem about not looking mournfully to the past because it will not come again. She clarifies that she never mourns their being together, except to think that’s over for the time being.

On the subject of why she’s glad he couldn’t tell, she begins to explain that…suddenly, she’s interrupted by a phone call from her “best feller.” How great it is to hear his voice! He sounded as close as Cleveland. “Cheer up, Darling. There will come a day when the Navy won’t have a single hold on you. But when that day comes, beware, ‘cuz the hold I’ll have on you will be much stronger and will be for keeps!”

Back to the subject at hand. It’s not that she’d mind him being able to tell, but from what she’d heard, the entire oppisite sex was able to tell, which is a very embarrassing thought. I suspect the topic which is too uncomfortable to name must be something to do with her period. After all, they were together for an entire month, so it was bound to have come up. The fact that they’re discussing it, despite the relative shyness of both parties speaks loud and clear of their growing intimacy. Considering the fact that they’re engaged, it seems high time to be broaching some of these subjects. What a far cry from the age when everything is up for public discussion on social media and television commercials!

It’s 9:00 PM and she has a 300-word English theme to write, so she must wrap this up. But not before telling him how proud she is to be his fiance. She tells him to imagine he’s being kissed in “that certain way,” and if it helps, to imagine that she’s had that tooth filed down.