(xx) Sade Struggles with a Letter

Well sir, it's early evening as our scene opens now, and here in the living room of the small house halfway up in the next block We discover Mr. and Mrs. Victor gook Vic is established in his easy jab beneath the floor lamp with the newspaper and Say to see that at the library table

Apparently undergoing the throes of composition. She observes I never knew a person could have so much trouble writing a little letter You mentioned Laura Stins note. I thought I might as well Well, pretty early to be declining a Thanksgiving invitation.

We were asked pretty early. That's true. They asked us early. I imagine they want to hear from us early. Laura's team likes trash arranged a long time ahead. Well, November is not so far from August at that.

I guess you will have to do this, Vic. Why? Oh, I'm not getting anyplace. Everything I write sounds rotten. Oh. It does. There are all those sheets of paper in front of you. Starts, I've made none of them's any good.

You're probably trying to be too particular. Well, that's just it. I feel like I've got to be particular, and so I can't write worth two cents. Look what I got here. Dear Robert and Laura Steen.

Did all you get? Yeah. Seems like I can't say what I want to say. Well, you never had that trouble before, did you? No, but see, I never write any letters to anybody. Best is the only one I write to, and I never think of being careful in particular in her letters.

I just start out to your sister and all and put down whatever comes in my head. We'll do that in Laura Steins' letter. Laura's dean taught grammar in English composition there in Dixon. She's terrible, well educated.