CHAPTER V.

Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Resturna.

9. May.

My dearest Lucy, forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed

with work.

The life of an assistant school mistress is sometimes trying.

I am longing to be with you and by the sea where we can talk together freely and build

our castles in the air.

I have been working very hard lately because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies,

and I have been practicing shorthand very acidlessly.

When we are married, I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan.

If I can stand a graph well enough, I can take down what he wants to say in this way and

write it out for him on the typewriter at which also I am practicing very hard.

He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of

his travels abroad.

When I am with you, I shall keep a diary in the same way.

I don't mean one of those two pages to the week with Sunday squeezed in a corner diaries,

but a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined.

I do not suppose there will be much of interest to other people, but it is not intended for

them.

I may show it to Jonathan someday if there is in it anything more sharing, but it is really

an exercise book.

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