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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-10 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

desk rather than on the table. That's so I can face the fireplace as I write. Temperament will have it's way. 
Frank came over to my room with me just before dinner. When he saw your picture he took me to task for not showing you to him and the rest of the fellows when we were in Washington. I told him that I did sympathize with him for missing that treat but that I didn't know him then as now and anyway we were too much occupied with our new world of happiness to care anything about anybody else's. I have often thought of many more things I might have done to entertain you, but if we had done them we should have lost many of those golden moments full of caresses and simple enjoyment of each other - which I understood you wanted most, just as I did. They were so very brief at best! How I look forward to the day when they will come again!

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desk rather than on the table. That's so I can face the fireplace as I write. Temperament will have it's way. Frank came over to my room with me just before dinner. When he saw your picture he took me to task for not showing you to him and the rest of the fellows when we were in Washington. I told him that I did sympathize with him for missing that treat but that I didn't know him then as now and anyway we were too much occupied with our new world of happiness to care anything about anybody else's. I have often thought of many more things I might have done to entertain you, but if we had done them we should have lost many of those golden moments full of caresses and simple enjoyment of each other - which I understood you wanted most, just as I did. They were so very brief at best! How I look forward to the day when they will come again!