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You refer - one page twenty-nine (?) of your latest letter to my superfluous ecstasy over your promise to let me go to the Paris Expedition. You mention the recklessness of my joy in inviting my cousin to come with me. It is natural for one to wish others to share his good fortune, and it was only in obedience to this human tendency that in the rashness of my delight I invited Mae to travel with me. By 1900 Mae will have money of her own, and I shall easily escape from paying her travelling expenses. If I must invite somebody to be my companion, who would make a more agreeable companion, or friend than she? Verily, your jealousy would be a scarlet hue if I should be so reckless as to invite any one else than a relative. I think therefore that I have now sufficiently excused myself to drop this topic in peace, and pass on to the next division of my letter.