“I have been led to think it possible that you may be willing to see me again,” he wrote in his earnest scrawl. “If it is not so, you tell me and that will be all; but if it is so, will you some day meet me?. . . [I]t has been for a long time my earnest desire to meet you again, if only as one who was once my dear friend, without regard to the future at all.” But the future quickly announced itself anyway. In a matter of weeks the two were engaged, and on June 16, 1896, they married at last.
