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1Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra. "9 May. "My dearest Lucy,-- "Forgive my long delay in writing, but I
2have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be
3with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very
4hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously.
5When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what
6he wants to say in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at which also I am practising very hard. He and
7I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad. When I am with
8you I shall keep a diary in the same way. I don't mean one of those
9two-pages-to-the-week-with-Sunday-squeezed-in-a-corner diaries, but a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I
10feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much of interest to other people; but it is not intended for them. I may
11show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book. I shall try to
12do what I see lady journalists do: interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember conversations. I am told
13that, with a little practice, one can remember all that goes on or that one hears said during a day. However, we shall
14see. I will tell you of my little plans when we meet. I have just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan from
15Transylvania. He is well, and will be returning in about a week. I am longing to hear all his news. It must be so nice
16to see strange countries. I wonder if we--I mean Jonathan and I--shall ever see them together. There is the ten o'clock
17bell ringing. Good-bye. "Your loving "MINA. "Tell me all the news when you write. You have not told me anything for a
18long time. I hear rumours, and especially of a tall, handsome, curly-haired man???" Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina
19Murray. "17, Chatham Street, "Wednesday. "My dearest Mina,-- "I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad
20correspondent. I wrote to you twice since we parted, and your last letter was only your second. Besides, I have nothing
21to tell you. There is really nothing to interest you. Town is very pleasant just now, and we go a good deal to
22picture-galleries and for walks and rides in the park. As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who
23was with me at the last Pop. Some one has evidently been telling tales. That was Mr. Holmwood. He often comes to see us,
24and he and mamma get on very well together; they have so many things to talk about in common. We met some time ago a man
25that would just do for you, if you were not already engaged to Jonathan. He is an excellent parti, being handsome, well
26off, and of good birth. He is a doctor and really clever. Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense
27lunatic asylum all under his own care. Mr. Holmwood introduced him to me, and he called here to see us, and often comes
28now. I think he is one of the most resolute men I ever saw, and yet the most calm. He seems absolutely imperturbable. I
29can fancy what a wonderful power he must have over his patients. He has a curious habit of looking one straight in the
30face, as if trying to read one's thoughts. He tries this on very much with me, but I flatter myself he has got a tough
31nut to crack. I know that from my glass. Do you ever try to read your own face? I do, and I can tell you it is not a bad
32study, and gives you more trouble than you can well fancy if you have never tried it. He says that I afford him a
33curious psychological study, and I humbly think I do. I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be
34able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day.
35There, it is all out. Mina, we have told all our secrets to each other since we were children; we have slept together
36and eaten together, and laughed and cried together; and now, though I have spoken, I would like to speak more. Oh, Mina,
37couldn't you guess? I love him. I am blushing as I write, for although I think he loves me, he has not told me so in
38words. But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him! There, that does me good. I wish I were with you, dear, sitting
39by the fire undressing, as we used to sit; and I would try to tell you what I feel. I do not know how I am writing this
40even to you. I am afraid to stop, or I should tear up the letter, and I don't want to stop, for I do so want to tell you
41all. Let me hear from you at once, and tell me all that you think about it. Mina, I must stop. Good-night. Bless me in
42your prayers; and, Mina, pray for my happiness. "LUCY. "P.S.--I need not tell you this is a secret. Good-night again.
43"L." Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray. "24 May. "My dearest Mina,-- "Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your
44sweet letter. It was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy.
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