Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe. Young Morris, who, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, also taught and edited a paper, found time to write Henrietta twenty page letters on everything that engaged his interest, from the acting of Sarah Bernhardt in Philadelphia to his reactions to the comments of ``Sulamith'' on the Jewish reform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Unlike his younger brother, Joe, he never presumed to address her more familiarly than as ``My dear friend,'' although he praised and envied the elegance and purity of her style. And when he complained of the lack of time for all he wanted to do, Henrietta advised him to rise at five in the morning as she and Papa did.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself. She could not resist the opportunity ``of showing her superiority in argument over a man'' which she had remarked as one of the ``feminine follies'' of Sara Sullam; and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness ``to think of men as the privileged'' and ``women as submissive and yielding,'' felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything. But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.