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#86 Thursday 28 December 4 pm Hi, Sweetie- At long last I've finished checking the revised Korean cards, work which has occupied me full time for the past week or so, and can go on to something else. There's more to do in the same connection but it will be a little less monotonous. The carpenters came this morning (2 CBs and about 8 civilians) and we are half screened in already. English class tonight. #92: Wendy's menu (as of Dec. 12) is really impressive! #93: Speaking of your Christmas package from Memphis, I'm getting very anxious to hear about how you and Wendy spent the day…I have to remind myself that today is Wednesday for you, so that even to hear about Christmas Eve I must be patient. Friday morning 8 am Had a swell sleep last night; after a satisfying 2-hour English class, I went to bed at 8:30. This morning I feel very much refreshed. (Dreamt of you.) #94: Have had Fran in mind ever since this letter arrived, thinking of how tough it must be for him - It seems a shame in that it will clip his wings and steal some of his song, so to speak; for better or worse, it's bound to have some permanently sobering effect on him. I think for worse (not everyone would, probably not the average male), but since it can't be helped now you have to look at it from the other side and appraise the ultimate good it may do him. That's a weak or irrelevant point before the fact but not after. My second immediate reaction to the news when it came was a flush of anger toward Hilde. I couldn't [pg 2] keep that for long, somehow; it was replaced by the thought that now is a better time to find out than later. Or at least I suppose it is. It's tough on Fran any way you look at it. I recall now my earlier impression of Hilde - the type of a girl with too many suitors. Certainly her sister was and she ended up by marrying a master seductionist with at least 3 or 4 hundred women to his “credit”. I would suspect now, not particularly to disparage her, that Hilde has had prior experience with lovemaking and that therefore her feelings toward Fran were those of a relatively mature woman, not idealistic and unmixed like his own. Say, you “extravagant-minx,” a woman never needs an excuse for being “made all beautiful” with permanents and such. That's not only your prerogative, it's your responsibility! Our last ditch of economy should be a) liquor b) books and periodicals c) clothes (at least a modicum assortment - more than you have now) permanents, etc. for you I love getting the letters with perfume in them. It survives much better when it is put on something like cotton than it does just on paper. Be sure to let me know when you receive Wendy's baby bonnet- All my love darling Warren
