That’s an excellent plan, I think. I am sure I can be enterprising enough to solve that little problem for us, and will see what else I can come up with for such important creature-finding preparations.

Will a blue scarf do, to find me? I won’t wear a hat, either, so that you might distinguish me any other gentleman from a distance. I don’t know if you were hoping for something more garish, but I do not want to attract too much attention from anyone else wondering why I am lurking in the park at night in some strange costume.

And I will of course forgive you if you have any misgivings, or otherwise change your mind and turn and run – but I promise I am not a criminal or a ruffian myself, however these letters might be making it sound.

(Hopefully you are not one either, or this could be a very clever scheme to lure me out somewhere in the middle of the night.)

But I’m looking forward to it, anyway; write me a time when you know, and I’ll meet you by the lake.

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