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Show The Dreams of My Heart 205 o Barnard, My Brian, the dreams of my heart, The yearning, the wonder, the rapturous part: You represent all I dare wish you to be, A Brian, A Barnard, - your Father and me. The following summer, when Madelyn was at the ranch, not expecting Harold for at least two weeks, she decided to write him a love letter: While I have been ironing, I have been playing romantic songs on the phonograph. As I work around our lovely home, I keep thinking of you and remembering your many generosities. As I have looked at our intelligent children, I remember that Papa predicted such ones from our marriage. But most of all, I keep marvelling at what our twenty-four and a half years have done for us. More and more I am envy ing just your presence, just your being near. When you are away I have a kind of yearning for all our togetherness means. It seems as if somehow we ought to be able to our life so that we can be closer, oftener. It seems especially wonderful that as I read or see plan plays or movies, or listen to opera, you still measure up to all that a girl's hero should be. You are a wonderful lover, romantic and delightful. The essence of your manhood represents all the old ideas of chivalry: strength, protection from harm, tak ing the responsibility of guidance, tenderness, and virility. Yes, you see, my Husband, I am still very much in love with you.' IV The most significant of their trips, however, was the seven month tour of the world that Madelyn and Harold took from February to September 1954 to celebrate their twenty-fifth wed ding anniversary. Officially, Harold served as a plenipotentiary for the Institute of International Education, Madelyn as a rep resentative of Planned Parenthood, and both as unofficial emis saries of the LDS Church. In connection with the latter assign ment they visited all the mission presidents and wives they |
