Febs,

The gossip mills are ridiculous nowadays; there's plenty of explanations for most of their rumors with all the fog, yet it seems some people are all too willing to speculate. It would not be too out of the norm for a woman of your status to be asked to stay indoors — just make up something about your weak lungs in the dusty fog.

And if we're going to suddenly elope, there's still much I have to learn about you. For instance, what would you do as a married woman? Do you like children very much? You don't strike me as the socialite type, and I mean that as a compliment rather than a criticism.

Affectionately,