Friday Feb 18 1898 Yes indeed will I - / Tuesday at 8. I haven't / been out yet & won't go out till / then - but it will be safe / enough by then - & for one / evening I will pretend - we / will pretend it is the very / highest conceivable jinks to / have been born. - / not over good news of / little Georgie at Bodighera. / the winds are cold, and she / made but slow way - but yet she is better. / Tonight I give a / dinner party - to Margaret / and Djaeg - and a merry singing / fellow named Denis O' Sullivan. / is coming to sing to me - I / have a notion, but cannot / be quite sure that he is an / Irishman - where can I / have got the idea from? / The other day Angela was describing / her brother to a young lady and / was heard to say. "/ Denis like everything soft about / him - my dear, I believe he / would like even a bad woman / if she was soft" / for the first time I began / to work a little yesterday - / and for an hour it went pretty / well - but how long the days / are, and endless the nights. / Give that blessed mother of thine / much love from me - I meant / this to be a long letter but / my pen begins to stumble / and I will end it. / always your affect. / EB-J / all next week is free - so if / at the last Tuesday is / inconvenient I will keep my / ? day - I thought / Wednesday was the free / night in the house - but / Tuesday will be happy - / not a wail shall you / hear from me -