P.S. They say a woman cannot write a letter without a postscript, and I believe it! Tell me what to do about H. How had I best introduce her to society? Don’t you think a dinner--where she could sit beside someone whom I could especially choose as suited to her--and where she would not be too much _en évidence_? A dance would not do at all--I doubt if she _can_ dance, poor girl! M. M. _Mrs. Franklin Bennett to Mrs. Olmsted Morrison._ October 22d. MY DEAREST MARIAN: How could you think me so cold-blooded as to consider such a piece of news as your letter contains “_peu de chose_”? I feel for you, I assure you. What a dilemma! The dear girls! how do they like the idea? Margaret, as you say, will probably not mind, but Eleanor--so exquisitely pretty and stylish! It will be rather a thorn in the flesh, I imagine. O! how I wish I had children--two such lovely girls as yours would make life a different thing for me! Of course, the dinner. How could you think of anything else! Invite some of the professors from the University for _her_, and have the rest of the company of young society people, so that Eleanor and Margaret can enjoy it too. Oh, my dear, I would like to write a long, long letter about this, but I am in such confusion and hurry! Mr. Bennett has been ordered to Wiesbaden for the winter, and we sail in a week. I wish I could be in Baltimore to help you, but it is impossible, of course. I count on your writing me all your plans, and just how Helen appears, and whether it is all as dreadful as you now fear. Address to the Langham Hotel until November 25th, after that, care Brown, Shipley, as usual. Good-by. I have a thousand things to tell you of, but must put them off until I reach London and have a moment to myself. As ever, Devotedly yours, A. B. P.S. Don’t look too much on the dark side of things. I knew a Philadelphia girl once--the niece of old Colonel Devereaux you know--and she was rather pretty and quite good form, though a college girl. I think, however, she had been but _one_ year to college. A. B. _Mrs. Olmsted Morrison to Mrs. Franklin Bennett, the Langham Hotel, London, W. C._ BALTIMORE, November 15th. DEAREST ALMA: Your note, which was so welcome and which came so long ago, would have had an earlier answer had I not been a little sick, and so busy and worried that I have not had time or heart to write even to you. So you can imagine in what a state I am. The girls came back to town shortly after I last wrote you, and we held a sort of family council about Helen. The dear girls were charming, and Eleanor bore it very bravely. She says she will give Helen hints about her hair, and will implore her not to wear spectacles, but rimless eye-glasses.