Dora Says I Don't Want To Build A House In Tombstone

Dear Readers,

I don't want to build a house in Tombstone, Arizona. It's too hot around here in the summer for one thing. Temperatures are frequently in excess of 90 degrees. Even worse, they sometimes hit 100 or above. It would make all my flowers wilt. And you can't grow boxwood hedges like you can in England. Nor can you grow shade trees, though at least there are trees of a sort.

It's also too unrefined. The roads are even paved in town. And instead of sidewalks they have boardwalks like a western movie set.

There don't seem to be any proper businesses either. All they have are shops selling western wear.

It's hardly what someone who sailed on the Lusitania or fought with Lawrence in the Great War would want to call home.

Sincerely yours,

Dora Benley
P.S. I'm not stranded in such a place in volume one of my memoirs, KIng Abdullah's Tomb.