Dot was so excited to read that Burke is coming out on the train with Dart that she cleared it with El and now issues an eager invitation for Burke to join them at the lake. Her cousin Janie has decided not to go back to college, so she may also be coming. She admits that it sounds as though they are inviting everybody and his brother, but she insists that at Sunapee, “the more, the merrier.” She says the family likes to invite outsiders because that leaves more people to boast about the place.

Not content with a possible entourage of El, her friend, Dart, Burke and Janie, she also pleads with Dart to convince his folks that a week at Sunapee is just what they need. She swears the cottage has “rubber walls” and can expand to accommodate a vast number of folks. She’s so committed to the idea of getting his folks out this year that she suggests a radical idea; If Dart, Sr. and Helen could come to the lake this year, she will agree to get married in Ohio, relieving them of the need to travel again next year. That’s quite an offer from a young woman whose large, close extended family tend to live in close proximity to Greenwich.

She actually resumes this letter a few days later, on September 3. Her cousin Janie has spent the last three nights at her house, and they’ve spent most of their time talking about how wonderful Dart is. Of course, our Dot rarely sits around idly shooting the breeze. While chatting with Jane, she also scrubbed and scoured the entire large kitchen, replaced the gaskets of the refrigerator, made a new case for the kitchen clock, painted a design on the bread box and mowed and raked the front yard.

It may interest Dart to know that the temperatures in Sunapee have dropped into the 30s! She confesses that they may not find much incentive to linger in the lake. There’s much more news, but she’s already taken so long to write this that she mustn’t delay any further. In 93 hours, she should be seeing him and Burke! She’s over the moon with excitement.