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think it is our duty to try to keep them and to appreciate them. As I am going around now Mrs. C., I have got a chance to see and understand what this world is like and what it is made up of. It certainly is a very wonderful world, and I am very glad to know that Janet is with you still and keeping well. It takes a lot off you to know that some one just understands your customs and everything else. Well now, Mrs. C., I hope I am not taking up too much of your time in writing as I know you have a lot to contend with now. I will draw to a close as this leaves me well, hoping to find youse all the same. I am yours most respectfully,

Sheila."

That letter remains my best credential as a mistress and I prize it accordingly. I am more grateful for it even, than the bead "Plastron" which is perennially admired by my artistic friends, one of whom observing it not long ago, charged me with flagrant extravagance. I use it to brighten up my pre-war gowns, but I never put it on without a thought of Sheila and a drag at the heart. What lay behind that allusion to "a true