The Changed Valentines And Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day by Elizabeth F. Guptill

Author:Elizabeth F. Guptill [Guptill, Elizabeth F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2017-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

Pauline. If—if any one finds a letter that was evidently intended to be mailed, and it hasn’t been, is it right for that person to mail it?

Amos. Why, certainly. It’s the proper thing to do, my dear.

Pauline. Even if it has been lost a long time?

Amos. I should think so. You see, you have no right to open it, so you would not know the writer, and thus could not return it to him, so the only thing to do is to mail it.

Pauline. So I thought. But you see, this one has been lost for forty years.

Amos. Forty years? Are you sure? Perhaps the one to whom it was addressed has moved, or is dead. It is a long time, my dear.

Pauline. No, he hasn’t, and she isn’t, so I mailed it. But I think I know the writer. Ought I to tell him about it, too?

Amos. Why, it might be well to do so. It is an unusual occurrence, to get a letter that was written to one forty years ago. I think you had better tell me the whole story.

Pauline. I believe I will. I was showing my valentines to Auntie to-day. Oh, do you know, I believe that letter was a valentine. Did you ever lose one?

Amos. Never. A valentine forty years old will be rather stale, I fear. Perhaps the lady—I believe you said it was a lady—may have been married for years to some other man. She may be a grandmother now, and may laugh at the effusion of the callow youth of the olden time.

Pauline. She won’t, I’m sure. And she isn’t a grandmother, for she never married. She has been faithful to a faithless lover all these years, and I believe that lost valentine is at the bottom of the whole trouble.

Amos. Indeed, just how, may I ask?

Pauline. Why, he had always sent her one, every year, since they were children, but that year he was mad about something, and he didn’t send her any. That is, she has always thought he didn’t, but I believe he did, and that that’s the letter I found to-day.

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