Nor did thoughts of the abandoned Cosmos trouble her very much during the blissfully tumultuous days of refurbishing her wardrobe and packing her trunk. Nor when she wrote a last society item for Ed Martin to put in the Beacon:
"Miss Melissa Merriam of Locust Avenue has gone for a two weeks" visit at the home of Miss Louise Briggs in Keokuk, Iowa.""
The little item held much in its few words. It was a swan-song.
As Ed Martin inelegantly put it, in speaking later with her father, Missy had "canned the Cosmos."