so she gave them that -- and it took the prize! I never was so happy about telling Elsie so she said oh so sweetly and simply “And it’s yours, you know, Peggy.” There’s something so exquisite about Elsie. She said to me the other day after a thoughtful silence -- it would have sounded abrupt from anyone else -- “I think it would be very hard to make love to you Peggy…. It would have to be done very delicately and with a great deal of variety.” Why she thinks so I don’t exactly know, but supposing she is right, “an” she were a man she could do it, for she is clever enough and fine enough.
The subject of the debate I was on is as follows. Resolved -- that the efforts of the employers to do away with the union shop is to the advantage of the laboring classes -- that is both union and non-union men. Mr Marry is about the only person who is making any such effort and I think he is all wrong, but it is easy to be seen that unions are good things and there is no reason why opens shops and unions may not coexist say the other side, and it’s a very interesting subject to debate though a very hard one in which to find statistics to prove one’s points.
How grand that the [Contempory] is to have Henry James!!!
Lots of love
Peg.