Of course I can write about nothing else till I have heard about this. I am sure I need not tell you that it has made me very unhappy. If you cannot come and see me at once, you had better write. I have told mamma about this letter.
Then came the difficulty of the signature, with the declaration which must naturally be attached to it. After some hesitation she subscribed herself,
Your affectionate friend,
HENRIETTA CARBURY.
"Most affectionately your own Hetta" would have been the form in which she would have wished to finish the first letter she had ever written to him.

I am sure I need not tell you that it has made me very unhappy. If you cannot come and see me at once, you had better write. I have told mamma about this letter.
Your affectionate friend,
Henrietta Carbury.
