Livy darling, we finished one of those awful days, where you talk twice in the same day. It is a dreadful pull on a body’s muscle.

This a We have been talking in a vast building which has a musical college in it; & when we were half through, this afternoon, I was walking up & down in a rear hall, while Cable was on the staege, & a young girl with music books under her arm, came along, & timidly asked,

“Do you know if the readings are over?”         OVER

“O, no,” I said, “only half-over.”

“Do you know if Mark Twain is going to read again, or is he already done?”

“O, no, the thing is n’t half over.”

“Do you know if he is going to read enough to make it worth while to go in, now?—that is, is he going to read something good?”

“Yes indeed he is. He is going to read one o of the best things you ever heard. Come with me. I can fix you.”

So I took her behind the scenes, & got her a chair, & placed her in the flies. Then I went back & found a dozen moreⒶemendation girls looking for her. I said—

“I know where she is—come with me.”

So they beckoned to others, & I captured quite a crowd of young college girls, & tooke them all in there behind the scenery, & h got chairs for them, & had the nicest private audience you ever saw. Then I went on the stage & shouted away, for the delectation of 1200 women in front, & this little group in the rear. Take it all around, we had a mighty rousing time, & a most pleasant afternoon.

We have talked 3 times here in 2 days, to big responsive audiences, & everything has been mighty satisfactory.

Tomorrow (Sunday) I breakfast with the Holsteads at 10.30 & then go to the Keramic factoroy with the Burts, & then dine with the Burts in the evening.

And I do love you, dear heart; there is no doubt whatever about that.