It is very silly in him,
and I regard it as no reason at all. I am quite unused to being
declined and do not intend to acquire the habit until I am a good
deal older than I was my last birthday. Still, I can understand
that he is too big to force against his will, so I think the
kindest way to break the back of the opposition will be for me to
do it personally. As an over-ruler I nearly always succeed. All I
require is an opportunity.
Please lay the two halves of your brain evenly together and devise
a train and an interview for me. Of course you will meet me at the
train and leave me at the interview. These are the fundamental
rules of my game. I know that you are clever and before we have
left the station you will know that I am. As arch-conspirators we
shall surely win out together, won't we?
Yours very truly,
Bertha Rosscott.
This missive posted, Jack's good angel made herself patient until the
afternoon of the next day when she might and did expect an answer.
She was not disappointed. The letter came and it was pleasantly bulky and
appeared ample enough to have contained an indexed gun powder plot. She
was so sure that Mitchell had been fully equal to the occasion that she
tore the envelope open with a smile--and read:
MY DEAR MRS. ROSSCOTT:
To think of my having some of your handwriting for my own!--I was
nearly petrified with joy.
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