CEHBates516

PS – If you do call at 4010
Alameda Drive "on Miss Dowden"[inserted above line] I think you should
not speak at all as "if Dick had
said anything [double underlined] about an engagement recent
even after a fashin" as he says –

Just say your brother spoke of her
a good deal & you know she was a friend
of Leslie Brown's who is also our
neighbor etc – "So on the strength of that ask if you may call"[inserted above line] – I would not pretend
to have heard any such word as
engagement [underlined] – unless she [underlined] says so herself.
Treat her as if she were a friend of Dick's.
You can tell her we have heard a lot about
Margret Kew too from & Capt. & Mrs Miller
If you go there to call – & Dick.