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Show 10 She was naturally concerned that her friend might tell him what she had been saying about him. Milford's arrival was a cause of great rejoicing in the Mayhew household where he was nephew and cousin. There was food and fun during the day and a dancing party that night to which Ellis's family was invited. Thereafter, almost every evening presented some excuse for the young people to be together. The group consisted of "MiIf," Call Mayhew and her two brothers, a cousin named Lydia Staker, Alonzo Farnsworth, Susan McArthur, and Ellis. Anyone who is counting can readily discern that this rounded out to four girls and four young men. Horseback and carriage rides, dancing parties, and walks around a nearby lake kept the summer packed with pleasure. These and other amusements continued through the fall and winter and spilled into the spring when, with Milf's announcement that he intended to return to his home in the East, a "death blow" was dealt to Ellis's happiness. "I presume it is needless to say," she wrote, "that I was deeply in love, just as girls of that age and for the first time can love..." Any girl, recalling her own season of first love, knows what a heady experience it is and how caught up in it one can become. On the day prior to Milford's departure, the group rode up American Fork Canyon in a carriage, walking further along when the road became too rough. Mi If, on a side excursion, found some early violets. On his return he presented them, saying, "Here's a bouquet for Ellis." For this singular distinction she was later teased unmercifully. |
