Dearest Pearl,

Another campaign to make the world a better place. You are unstoppable, Pearl, and I hope that all your running about on trains passing out flyers and pleading for money to pay the bills does not make you too cranky about the human condition. Some will turn you down no matter how charmingly you plead. Houses with names, they'll tell you, are houses that deserve to be ignored. Our own houses, they'll say, have addresses, not names. Oh, it will be an uphill battle, Pearl, getting the little people to care about The Mount. You mustn't breathe a word about The Lanterns, of course. Oh, and speaking of lanterns, wasn't it Edith's insight that "there are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Isn't that just the story of our own friendship, dear friend?

I Remain Your Devoted Miss Blue