Even at this moment, as I think of you, I feel cheered, for always I can write letters to you, and put into them what I am feeling, and receive from you detailed answers.⁠ ⁠… I have bought you a wardrobe, and also procured you a bonnet; so you see that you have only to give me a commission for it to be executed.⁠ ⁠… No⁠—in what way are you not useful? What should I do if I were deserted in my old age? What would become of me? Perhaps you never thought of that, Barbara⁠—perhaps you never said to yourself, “How could