Dora Asks What Will I Do If Edward Makes A Career Of The Military?

Dear Readers,
What will I do if Edward makes a career of the military? He says he is enlisting just for a few months in the Dardanelles. The war is supposed to be over, and we are to get married at Christmas, 1915. But he seemed awfully interested in boarding his troop transport and meeting this mysterious man called T. E. Lawrence. Sometimes I think he's more interested in matters like that than he is in me.

I might be able to put up with it for a few months. But to have it go on and on forever . . . I could not stand it, readers. I would have to be by myself a lot. Instead I like to be with Edward. I would never know what he was really up to. How could I deal with that? He would always be going off to this war or that. He would be stationed here or there. And where would I be?

I don't think Edward has given this enough thought.

Sincerely yours,

Dora Benley
P.S. Imagine having to think about this just weeks off the Lusitania!