Dear Miss Blue,

Well, what a relief it must be to finally settle the score between Louise and Mr. McSweeney!  And now the joyful days with Fanny's friends from her Cricket Team, Lucinda and Leandro. I have never played the game of Cricket.  Soccer was the game we played when I was in grade school - kicking the soccer ball from one end of the court to the other with no use of our hands, we were always graceful as we moved hopefully to make it to the goal and the winning score. I am delighted to see Lucinda and Leandro taking their love of Cricket onto dancing in the street, a perfect playing field.  We loved our Marlborough Street, Miss Blue, even though we found the name terribly hard to spell when we first moved there. Everyone felt the same frustration since most streets had much simpler -maybe two syllable - names (like Philip, the street our school was on).

I hope you forgive me for taking so long in writing back to you, dear Miss Blue.

As always, Your Pearl