13th September, 1893
Mr. PTB,
We are agreed on that – I enjoy a debate well enough, but I certainly do not desire to spend my life devoted to scholarship! Your choice was a good one – all the fun of a murder mystery event, without real murder. I am interested you thought it necessary to tell me you were not the thief, though. A thief is also likely to be a liar, don’t you think? I expect it would be the tiara thief’s favourite party of the summer, too, if they were successful. So I shan’t rule you out, whatever you say.
But tell me more about your sister! I am an only child, so I have no siblings and nothing, I confess, to ever really worry about. How old is she? Did she have some dreadfully bad luck in a courtship, a heart broken, or did she somehow bring the doom upon herself?
I would say I am very sorry for her, but I suspect that lots of marriages are in fact quite dull.
Miss A.
