4Th study year:

She returned to the college. She was a Senior and an editor of Monthly.

Julia had a trunkful of the most ravishing^{(восхитительный)} new clothes – an evening dress of rainbow Liberty crepe that would be fitting for the angels in Paradise.

Judy had copied Mrs Paterson’s wardrobe with the aid of a cheap dressmaker. She was entirely happy until Julia unpacked. ‘But now - I live to see Paris!’

She had been writing a book, all the previous winter in the evenings and all the summer. She had just finished it before college opened and sent it to a publisher. He kept it 2 month, and sent it back.

The editor’s opinion: ‘Plot is highly improbable^{(неправдоподобен)}. Characterization exaggerated^{(преувеличены)}. Conversation unnatural. A good deal of humor but not always in the best of taste. Tell her to keep trying, and in time she may produce a real book’.

She was planning to surprise Daddy by writing a great novel before she graduated. She collected the material for it while she was at Julia’s last Xmas. She burnt the novel.

Next morning she woke up with a beautiful new plot.

New subjects: biology (very interesting subject), philosophy – interesting but evanescent.

She believed absolutely in her own free.

Daddy had sent her 17 Xmas presents.

She sent him the necktie which she knit with her own hands.

She asked Daddy for 100$ for a 24-year-old girl (who was a dressmaker for 1.50$ a day) and for her family as they have 6 children (4 visible and 2 boys have disappeared into the world to make their fortune) as his father worked in a glass factory and got consumption^{(чахотка)}.

She had been laid up with swollen tonsils^{(миндалевидные железы)} for 2 days.

She received a cheque from Daddy and was very thankful.

They were reading Samuel Pepys. It seemed a little early to commence entertaining.

Sallie and Judy came to Lock Willow Farm for ten days on the Easter Vacation because there was quiet and they had been tired.

She began to write a book about the JGH – about the tiny little things that had happened every day. ‘Master Jervie and that editor man were right; you are most convincing^{(убедительный)} when you write about the things you know’. She abandoned romanticism and became a realist.

Commencement was coming in 3 weeks from the future Wednesday. Judy wanted Daddy to come. ‘I shall hate you if you don’t’.

Julia was inviting Jervis, Sallie was inviting Jimmie.

She was educated.

4Th summer:

Jervis was coming for a week in August. Jimmie was gong to drop in. He was connected with a bond house that time, and went about the country selling bonds to banks. He was going to combine the ‘Farmers’ National’ at the corners.

She found it fun to work on her book.

Amasai and Carrie had got married last May. ‘I’ve determined never to marry. It’s a deteriorating process’.

Mr James McBride came and she was awfully glad to see him; he brought a momentary reminder that the world at large existed. He had a hard time peddling his bonds. She thought he would end by going home to Worcester and taking a job in his father’s factory.

She was thinking of moving to Boston with Sallie in winter to share a studio.

Daddy’s secretary – Elmer H. Griggs. She hated him.

She was very unhappy and needed for Daddy’s advice. She would like to see him instead of writing.

She was sending him a cheque for 100$ as she had sold her story and it would be published serially in 7 parts, and then it a book.

She told she had a special feeling to Jervis. They were entirely companionable. They thought the same about everything – she was afraid she had a tendency to make over her ideas to match his. He was 14 years older her. She missed him.

She had refused to marry him. There was a misunderstanding between them: he thought she refused as she wanted to marry Jimmie McBride – but she didn’t; he wasn’t grown up enough. She cared a lot about Jervis and she refused, as she had never told him about the orphan asylum, and she hated to explain that she didn’t know who she was.

Judy received a letter from Julia and had known that Jervis had been caught out all night in a storm when he was hunting in Canada and had been ill since with pneumonia.

Daddy had sent her an invitation to come to see him at half-past 4 the future Wednesday afternoon and Judy was agreed. ‘I am really going to see you – I’ve been just thinking of you so long that it hardly seems as though you are a tangible flesh-and-blood person’.

She had been in New York 3 times.

She didn’t sleep that night.

‘The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and care-free and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But mow – I shall have a Great Big Worry’.

‘The doctor said I must be a good nurse, that you looked ten years younger’.

‘Yesterday was the most wonderful day that could happen’. Daddy lived on Madison Avenue in a big, brown and forbidding house.

His butler: a nice, fatherly old man that made Judy feel at home at once. ‘I knew from the way he said it [caring about Mr Smith] that he loved you – and I think he’s an old dear’.

It was dim in the library.

‘Then you [Jervis] laughed and held out your hand and said, ‘Dear little Judy, couldn’t you guess that I was Daddy-Long-Legs?’

‘What must I call you? Just plain Jervie sounds disrespectful, and I can’t be disrespectful to you’.

It was a very sweet half hour before the doctor came and sent her away.

It was climbing weather and she walked around with Colin visiting all the places that she and Jervis went to together, and remembered what he said and how he looked.

‘I shall never let you be sorry for a single instant’.