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cipation.We want you to come earlier than you proposed in order to 
stay with us a bit-you need not be assured how glad we shall be to 
have you with us-I trust we may have left ne uncertain impression in 
your mind on Ihat score.Now about that visit with vou that you have so 
hospitably proposed: it really seems to be for me an impossibility. 
I have delayed answering your letter-which I should otherwise have 
done earlier-in order that I might find out definitely just what the 
possibility would be,since we all wish so very much to go,but now I 
am obliged to say that even if all other cases now on hand permitted, 
there is one that declares definitely that she cannot let me go away 
even for a total of five days as I proposed on a compromise, This is 
one of the patients in the house-so what is there for me to do but to 
realize that since I am the doctor and this lady is the above minded 
patient,I can do nothing else but fulfil the obligations that I as» 
sume when I take a patient in charge. I haven’t yet broken this dis- 
appointing news to George -and he is still all primed up as to what he 
is going to do up at your Camp-,and as to Mrs,Gehring she feels very 
disappointed,-but thats one of the things one brings upon himself when 
he leaves the ranks of a private gentleman and goes into the glare of 
the scintillating public life of a physician who is treating function- 
al nervous disorders!!}Being teak othieaa to bury this disappointment 
under our vests,we trust you will let us make it up by arranging to 
stay with us the longer on your way up and on your way down; There are 
many things I would like to talk over with you-its a long time since 
I’ve had a satisfactory one. Our piazza life is pleasant this summer 
Since we have solved the shade problem with an awning that seems to 
fill the bill as well as anything can that is not a tree, 
