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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917

1917-12-18 Josephine to Conger Reynolds Page 2

last summer! Oh, I am properly astounded. 
It is quite a relief to know what has been the matter with you.  There have been times this fall when I thought you and I were a bit dull, ('fess up, didn't you feel so too?) and I was forced to conclude that I was getting old and boresome, and that even several years of sympathy and understanding were soon to be doomed to obscurity.  You certainly were different - and a bit abstracted at times.  Are you aware of the fact?  Of course, if I had had the least clue as to what was troubling Romeo I wouldn't have wondered.  And then when you didn't write - and you said you would - and even my poor little key didn't come back - I thought, "well, the poor man certainly was bored," x and I thought you had tossed my key down a well and said, "There!

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last summer! Oh, I am properly astounded. It is quite a relief to know what has been the matter with you. There have been times this fall when I thought you and I were a bit dull, ('fess up, didn't you feel so too?) and I was forced to conclude that I was getting old and boresome, and that even several years of sympathy and understanding were soon to be doomed to obscurity. You certainly were different - and a bit abstracted at times. Are you aware of the fact? Of course, if I had had the least clue as to what was troubling Romeo I wouldn't have wondered. And then when you didn't write - and you said you would - and even my poor little key didn't come back - I thought, "well, the poor man certainly was bored," x and I thought you had tossed my key down a well and said, "There!