rm is nearly lost in the abounding
happiness of those two weeks, and the third one which I spent with my
Gertrude Merriman, who stole it from her many cases to be with me. When
I set down each little incident of them in black and white, as I mean to
in my letter to Don, they will appear commonplace enough, I'm afraid;
but I shall tell him that their story is written on my heart in letters
of gold and many colors.

He pretends to be interested in every foolish little thing that I have
done, but I don't suppose that he would care to read about all the new
dresses I have bought. I never realized before that a girl could get so
much pleasure out of buying pretty things, and I am afraid that he would
scold me if he knew how many leaves I have used out of my checkbook. Not
that they have been all for clothes, little diary. I did not realize how
much I had given to war charities, and I was a little frightened this
morning when I made up my balance.

But I cannot help giving for the poor French and Belgian babies. It
somehow seems as though I were giving the money to Don to spend for me."

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There follow many entries, in the course of which the name of Donald
appears, and many more in which that of Philip, from which one might
reasonably draw the conclusion that the latter was conscientiously
performing his part as _ad interim_ guardian for Rose. There are also
several mentions of impish, lovable Jimmy--he of the red hair,
presumably--and of visits, on her afternoons off, to the cheap and
somewhat squalid apartment where he lived with his thin, tired, but
pitifully optimistic mother, and a stout, florid-faced father, who wore
shabby, but very loud-checked, suits and was apparently a highly
successful business man of big affairs, but frequently "temporarily out
of funds." Indeed, it would seem as though there were times when the
family--which included six other children from one to ten years
old--would actually not have had enough to eat if Rose had not "loaned"
the wherewithal to purchase it to the father of the household.

Under date of May 15th, 1916, appears the following.

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"_Two_ black bands on the little white cap! One round table nearer the
wall! Materia medica, orthopedia, medical analysis, general surgery,
bacteriology, therapeutics and anaesthesia no longer mere words, wh