FML

[Mariana Macnair]

May 24th, 1884

Livvy,

I have reason to suspect I may be in the family way. I sincerely hope I am suffering from some other malady but the more I think about it, the more certain I feel, especially after your own experience.

Should my assumption be correct, you know how likely it is it will be a boy. Promise you shall visit me when Eustace has me committed, for I shall go mad if I am cursed with another son.

Mariana

  

[Olivia Pendergast]

May 26th, 1884

Mariana dear,

Don’t be a fool, Sister. While I may have had a pregnancy during rather advanced years, I am quite sure that, as a healer, you know how rare this is—likelier than not you are simply approaching The Change. Do not be so dramatic.

Olivia

  

[Mariana Macnair]

May 27th, 1884

Livvy,

I am not as old as you are and it's not unheard of and you know I never get ill. Anyhow, it is all too possible, if you know what I mean.

Mariana