I am even teaching
a perfectly dear parrot they have here to sing, 'Oh, What a Pal was
Mary.' Will you run over to my rooms and send down that London smoke
chiffon frock with the silver underslip? Stockings and slippers to
match in a box in the bottom drawer. I am contemplating a moon-light
mood and must have the accessories. One loses half the effect if one
does not dress the part. Madam Enigma never dresses in character.
Because she never assumes one. So dull to be always just oneself,
don't you think? Even if one knew what one's real self is, which I
am sure I do not.
"This girl annoys me. How she can be so simple and yet so complex I
can't understand. I thought perhaps a dash of jealousy might be
revealing. But she hasn't turned a hair. I have my emotions pretty
well in hand myself but even if I didn't adore my husband, I'd see
that no one else appropriated him. But as far as Madam Coolness is
concerned it looks as if I might put her husband in my pocket and
keep him there indefinitely.
"I told you in my last about the good-looking doctor. What she sees
in him puzzles me. He is handsome but as dull as all the proverbs.
Can't be original even in his love affairs--otherwise he would
hardly select his best friend's bride--so bookish! Why doesn't
someone fall in love with the wife of his enemy? It seems to have
gone out since Romeo's time. (Now don't write and tell me that
Juliet wasn't married.)
"Another thing which I find odd, is the attitude of Benis himself.
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