Preparations for the Trip

Have you begun to make the preparations for your trip? The first thing to do is to make inquiries of your friends who have traveled abroad. First of all, they will advise you to write to the Department of State to ask for a passport. Why do tourists need them now? Don't you know that the war is over ? 4

Certainly, but the government has been very exacting5 on that point since 191 7. You know that before our entrance in the war, many German spies were able to procure some of these documents. I read that they used to disguise themselves as American citizens to travel in France and6 England.

Don't lose any time when you receive7 the passport. As soon as possible, write to all the steamship companies to ask them8 for their folders. Study them closely and then reserve passage on the liner early. There is one that leaves New York on9 the 17th of June and arrives at Havre on9 the 26th. I shall travel on that one.

Then, follow your father's advice. Didn't he tell you that

1 See Grammar Review, Section 83. 2 que.

3 Present subjunctive. 4 finie.

5 See Grammar Review, Section 80. 6 Repeat en.

7 See Grammar Review, note to sentence 2 of Exercise VIII.

8 leur. • Omit.