Houstoti, Texas, 77002
                                               May 22, 2003
Dear Betts,
   It＇s a shame that business has kept me from answering your last letter.Your note makes me feel guilty, and I pause in my mad rush to say -- hold everything till that streamliner pauses at your station at half past five next Saturday afternoon.Tell your mother I may not "obey" in full, but that I＇ll make her glad to be rid of me.As for Ted,say,I＇m out of practice   but unafraid。
      I＇m five minutes late — but I＇ll make that committee meeting.
      Good-bye tillSaturday.