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Show 21 President come in, I should escape observation. I had not been seated long before he did come, carrying in his hand a light. He spoke a few words to Sister Lucy and then looked around until he saw me, came over and sat down by me and smilingly said, "I thought I was bringing you to a place where you had never been before." I said, "Oh, no. I have been here once before. I took supper with Sister Zina one evening." "Well," he said, "When we were riding along in Sanpete, it struck me that you were the girl." He asked me many questions, all of which I answered promptly. He said well, there is no engagement between you now and I am glad of it, and that should he wish to renew his attentions, to have nothing to say to him. I gave him to understand that I had no such wish, and that it was on this account that I hesitated so much in accepting his kind and generous offer. He reassured me and told me to let nothing of the kind cause me unpleasant feelings, to feel perfectly at home, and that I could start to school as soon as I wished. '2 The inevitable first pangs of loneliness in being away from family and friends were eased by attendance with President Young at a Mormon Battalion party, a visit from Zeb-during which each returned letters received from the other and then parted as friends-and a gift from "Brother Young" of a "beautiful muslin dress" which he wished her to have fitted to wear with him to a ball on the evening of July 24th. With the help of a dressmaker in the household, Ellis soon had a perfect fit and felt that she had never looked better as, at the ball, she met a number of old friends and acquaintances, including Milford Shipp and his wife and sister. ft In the same week, she visited the Robisons, the Pratts, the Shipps, and attended the theatre several times, beginning to feel very comfortable indeed in her new setting. School was not as frightening as she had anticipated for, though she was a bit deficient in some areas, when it came grammar and |
