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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918
1918-09-23 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2
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that it was "inevitable," tho it really was, from one standpoint, for I had never before realized such an overwhelming, passionate love. Stop and consider, dear: I didn't marry you to satisfy a "girlish whim" because I am too old to have "girlish whims." And I wasn't wildly accepting the first man who offered me his love -- no, really! And it wasn't your wealth nor your family-tree nor anything like that because you must be aware of how utterly ignorant I was of your "personal affairs." Dearest, it must have been because I loved you, don't you think so? And loved you enough to do for you what it had seemed impossible for me to do for any man. do you remember as I
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that it was "inevitable," tho it really was, from one standpoint, for I had never before realized such an overwhelming, passionate love. Stop and consider, dear: I didn't marry you to satisfy a "girlish whim" because I am too old to have "girlish whims." And I wasn't wildly accepting the first man who offered me his love -- no, really! And it wasn't your wealth nor your family-tree nor anything like that because you must be aware of how utterly ignorant I was of your "personal affairs." Dearest, it must have been because I loved you, don't you think so? And loved you enough to do for you what it had seemed impossible for me to do for any man. do you remember as I
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