It’s too bad about not being able to get me in Croft House, but I don’t actually care where I stay as long as it’s warm and no bugs and I see you occasionally, i.e. Anyway I just got your beautiful letter and I love you to pieces, distraction, etc., and can hardly wait for the weekend. Incidentally I’ve taken your advice and resorted to the dictionary a lot lately, so if it cramps my style your to blame.
So if I spell anything wrong kindly have the kindness to overlook it. I have no idea if you will be able to decipher this as the noise in the dorm is absolutely incredible tonight and I can hardly hear myself think. It had a handled, unfresh look, as if it had been taken out of its envelope and read several times before: The letter was written-typewritten-on pale-blue notepaper. He began to read it immediately, with his mouth not quite closed. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind and used the same hand to reach inside his coat and take out a letter from the inside pocket of his jacket. He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. For ten minutes or more, he had deliberately been standing just out of conversation range of the other boys, his back against the free Christian Science literature rack, his ungloved hands in his coat pockets. Or, rather, he was and he wasn’t one of them.
Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of the six or seven boys out on the open platform.
The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries. Of the twenty-some young men who were waiting at the station for their dates to arrive on the ten-fifty-two, no more than six or seven were out on the cold, open platform. T HOUGH brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend-the weekend of the Yale game.
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