I can't hardly believe I forgot to write about this! I guess my mind be so full of other things, some things just get shoved to the side here and there. Miss The lady here is asleep now, and I'm too tired to try and fix all my spelling and whatnot. I wer was in the Prancing Pony the other evening, talking with Mister Leoffrith and this woman Miss Carria (but she left shortly after I got there, and another girl, Miss Ollena took her spot). I wasn't doing too much talking, really. I don't have a lot to say around strangers, and when there's half a dozen voices all coming into my ears at once, I just try to keep up with listening and don't bother trying to talk. Well, this fellow come over and said hullo to us and then just sat right down next to me. Said his name were Wyndham and then said it were Seger, because his father back home calls himself Wyndham, too, I think. He hadn't been sitting there for five minutes before he looks at me and says something about the beauty of Gondor and that I belong there or something other. I honestly can't remember all the words rightly because I was so shocked. He were a big man, dressed in furs and leathers like a proper traveler with coin. Turns out his family is in the tanning business, turning skins to leather and such. Anyway, that's not here nor there. I don't think Mister Leoffrith or Miss Ollena knew what to make of him, and I sure didn't! I just felt my face going hot and red and waited for him to talk about something else. And he did, but then he leaned over and pretended he were going for his pocket, but instead he whispered in my ear, more things about me being beautiful. It were flattering in a way, but it made me feel sort of dizzy and light headed, and I knew he weren't really serious because no gentleman says things like that to a lady he just met! Miss Ollena's dog appeared from somewhere then, and I said I wished I could have a dog, and he did it again, he done leaned over and tried to whisper without anyone noticing. Said he'd buy me a dog or anything my heart wanted. Now, I've not been proper drunk in a long time, and I'm not ashamed to say that. But this man were like a drink that sets you drunk! I think Mister Leoffrith found it funny, since I had teased him a bit about the lady he were teaching shooting to. But by the end, I didn't know what to make of this Mister Seger Wyndham from Gondor, but his whispers would have been better spent on another lass! He said he were going to find a bath and go to bed, and then he had the nerve to say he wished I would join him! I tell you, if Missus Hopmead or Missus Holbrook heard such a thing, they'd have taken rolling pins to his nose!
Do the men of these far away lands really think that Bree lasses can be bought so cheap, with a bunch of flowery words? I feel angry now, that it made me smile and blush so, when it were clear he just hoped I'd follow him to the back and throw off me skirts! Mister Leoffrith had gone before it all were over, and I wonder if that didn't make Mister Seger all the bolder to try such a thing.
What nonsense, weren't it? If I ever see him again and he starts that sort of talk, I'll tell him just how far it'll get him with a proper lass who has some honor and means to keep it!
