The Ides of March.
_Dear D. L. L._,
I am studying Latin prose composition. I have been studying it.
I shall be studying it. I shall be about to have been studying it.
My reëxamination comes the 7th hour next Tuesday, and I am going to
pass or BUST. So you may expect to hear from me next, whole and
happy and free from conditions, or in fragments.
I will write a respectable letter when it’s over. To-night I have a
pressing engagement with the Ablative Absolute.
Yours--in evident haste,