Letter the Twenty-fifth: A letter from Susan to Lucy
Same Day
Dearest Lu,
Please calm down and come eat supper. If you feel you cannot manage that then at the very least, read this.
You know as well as I do that we cannot simply send Lady Daphne and her countryman away as Lord Peridan suggested. It would be a severe breach of etiquette and diplomacy. As rulers of Narnia, we must exhibit better conduct than that. In the future, we shall receive many suitors and they will not always be to our fancy. That does not excuse us from behaving with the utmost decorum and treating all our guests with courtesy. I understand how you feel about Lord Guy's methods of courting and I know it is hard but you must- to put it plainly-grin and bear it and politely let him know of your own feelings without offending him. I know you can do it, Lu. You are not called the Valiant Queen for nothing.
On another note, you'll never guess who Peter heard from yesterday. Alice of Lantern Waste! Do you remember her? Apparently, she is married to Lady Daphne's brother. She wrote to Peter to warn him not to marry Lady Daphne as she does not love him and has ulterior motives. I suppose I'm not too surprised to hear that. If it is true it won't be the first time such a thing has happened to one of us. It was nice of her to take the trouble to write us even though we haven't corresponded in years. Should I send her a letter?
Susan