The two sisters had been writing when this conversation started. They were busy on a new generation of the Spencer-Spicer genealogy, and if you have ever engaged on a task like that, you will know the correspondence it requires.
Very interesting - a daughter is the only known heir to the business that has been in the family for 6 generations. But she becomes its president, and introduces women workers during WWI, and again after the war in response to a strike. Contains interesting ideas. Originally published in 1920.