Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Your secretary man has just written to me saying that Mr. Smith
prefers that I should not accept Mrs. McBride\'s invitation,
but should return to Lock Willow the same as last summer.

Why, why, WHY, Daddy?

You don\'t understand about it. Mrs. McBride does want me,
really and truly. I\'m not the least bit of trouble in the house.
I\'m a help. They don\'t take up many servants, and Sallie an I can do lots
of useful things. It\'s a fine chance for me to learn housekeeping.
Every woman ought to understand it, an I only know asylum-keeping.

There aren\'t any girls our age at the camp, and Mrs. McBride wants
me for a companion for Sallie. We are planning to do a lot of
reading together. We are going to read all of the books for next
year\'s English and sociology. The Professor said it would be a great
help if we would get our reading finished in the summer; and it\'s
so much easier to remember it if we read together and talk it over.

Just to live in............