I •said, "Tour father ia the gentleman who lent those beautiful pictures the other 4ay, ■ isn't he?" He said, "Sir Joseph Passinger, yes !" and Beemed surprised I had aot known. He is very, very fond of me, and ia stay ing down here for no other reason than to go in front at night, and meet me on the front in the morning. The two " fionts " ' were accidental, and not -a joke, but yon may take them fora pun if you think them funnyi. ■ ; -. He aßked me to dinner at an hotel yesterday, and I explained how wrong it would be for me to dine with him without -a chaperon i (Do yon spell "chaperon". with an "c" at the end or not? Never miodi) ■ He answered that he would be only too delighted to invite the whole company if he got my society in ; and I «ompromued with a woman I owe 103 tq—. who effaced herself after the champagne in a manner beyond praise. He is really de lightfully innocent and simple, and Ifeel ; that he only hesitates to aak me to marry him because be hasn't got the pluck. - You. may nob believe it, but I like him top/. There ia a freshness) about him that takes me wonderfully. He looks at me with his big blue eyes aa if I were a goddess in a petticoat. His father has spoilt him from his birth, he saya, and never denied him anything; Perhaps he wouldn't deny him hia blessing if he married Viva! We stay here a f oitnight ;. if anything happens will let you know. Your loving daughter, V. P.S.— A basket of flowers has jaat been sent to my lodgings. Would rather have iad them handed over the floatB ; but, of course, he has never bean in love with an actress before. .. : ' Prom Miss Viva Vandeleur, Brighton, to Horatio Vandeleur, Esq., Theatre Boyal, Oldham. :; Sept. 18, 1892. My Eeßpected " Gov.,"— The die is cast, and sound a chord in the orchestra ! Harold proposed this afternoon. He had suggested the Chain Pier, and I felt it coining < Nobody waa there — we had it to ourselves. 