I have got rather a good voice, and I am considered
handsome--at least smart-looking. If you are not too grand to
invite me to your place, I should like to come and see you,
but of course you must do as you please. I got your address
from the bank Uncle Mallory used to send us checks on. I can
tell you we have missed those checks pretty badly this last
year. I hope you have now got over your great sorrow.--This
boarding-house is horribly poky but cheap, which is the great
thing. I arrived the night before last,
"And I am
Your affectionate cousin
FANNY MERTON."
No, it really was not an attractive letter. On the second reading, Diana
pushed it away from her, rather hastily. Then she reminded herself
again, elaborately, of the Mertons' disadvantages in life, painting them
in imagination as black as possible. And before she had gone far with
this process all doubt and distaste were once more swept away by the
rush of yearning, of an interest she could not subdue, in this being of
her own flesh and blood, the child of her mother's sister. She sat with
flushed cheeks, absorbed in a stream of thoughts and reminiscence.
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