“This has been a very nice day,” Pearl wrote on Saturday in the spring or summer. “I have been at home all day by my self. They all have been gone for the longest time. I guess I would have had to stayed the whole time by my self if it hadn’t been for a girl friend who dropped in for a few minutes chat. She has gone and I have been dreaming of my love and his sweet looks when another face broke in on my meditation and said, ‘I see [name omitted] is back again.’ I asked, ‘Where is he at?’ She said, ‘I seen him out at the store. He’s a lot better looking than he used to be.’ But I never got a glimpse of him at all.”

“Our company began to come in,” Pearl wrote the following day, a Sunday. “Cora was primping up to go out with some of them. I was laying on the bed lost in deep thoughts of my afflictions. That caused me to be so sorrowful and sad, for I couldn’t go with them. I was nursing my misery to its fullest heights when some one came in the next room. All at once a calmness came over me. I was thinking of my sweet lipped honey and wishing he was here. But I felt his presence before he entered the room. I was so astonished and dumbfounded that I couldn’t speak for several seconds when he smiled one of his smiles and said, ‘Why hello, Pearl. How are you?’ I hardly remember what I said for I was still under the shock of it all, for this was the first time I had seen him since I discovered I loved him so dearly. I know I blushed from my neck to the roots of my hair. I was so overjoyed and thankful for his return that I hardly knew what to do. Aw shucks, what could I do? I couldn’t do any thing — only lay there and smile too myself. They all left out and he stayed on. But he didn’t stay in there for long where I was, but sit in the next room nursing his misery too, I guess. But I’m not telling what it was and he wouldn’t eat no dinner and stayed till late in the evening and then was gone and left me to suffer it out by my self. No one ever guessed that I too suffered like others do. I don’t guess he ever dreamed I could love him but I do just the same and I mean that he shall know by and by.”