Hillcrest Hospital
Tuesday
Address co Mrs. Borden
26 Elizabeth Stree.
P-Margaret dear:
I am all dressed up in my "store clothes" waiting for mother to come and take me away. I feel amazingly cheerful even though I know I may have to come back. But Oh! for a few square meals and a quiet night first!
I realize your perplexity, dear, and altogether share it. But there is nothing to do but wait for that confounded report. Dr. Tracy now thinks it will be here Friday when I have to come back anyway for a rebandaging. I think I shall telegraph you so you will know what to do on Saturday. If it is a bad report of course i shall have to stay around till some one can finish up the operation, but if it isn't now would it be if I went as far as Westfield and stayed with you till Sunday? Or I could, if that were frightfully inconvenient for you, start Sunday and stay till Monday? I don't believe I ought to go to S.H. - though I do so desperately want to. I dread all the car changes and I should just literally die of mortification if I did fall sick in the hands of you blessed people there. When I thought of myself as a lanky [?] convalescent, of course that was different - but I don't believe in it now. Yet how I do want to see Mrs. Hunt and Nell and Bertha - blessed dears! You I somehow have to see and yet if you can't manage Westfield, I wonder how we will do it? I had a dear letter from your father yesterday. He could be persuaded to bring you down, couldn't he?
Write me which day would be best for you, Margaret, and then I'll have the data on hand if so be I do get a clean bill of health. But you must not be too bothered if I don't. It won't mean much more than the operation that I thought was coming off last Wednesday.
Glory - won't it be wonderful if we are ever clear of all these saw bones and can engage in a little rational talk? I could even stand strategy.
I think I am going to your friend's Lodge for 13.00 a week. Hope she feeds me well for I am a famished wolf and no gentle lady at all.
Can't you be more specific about Miss Bates? Of course she had an obsession but it was queer enough to be interesting. You know that you and Miss Stevens are adorable and I feel worried to have you sound so worried about a silly diet. I bet you did have the influenza and didn't know it.
Much love -
L- [Laura]