1 Read the short story and explain what important change takes place at the end of the story. Letters in the Mail In general, almost everybody likes to receive mail and perhaps nobody in the whole town of Stillwater liked to get letters more than Ray Buffin did. But, unfortunately, Ray received fewer letters in his box at the post-office than any body else. Nobody wrote letters to him except that once a month he did get a bill from the gas and electric company and occasionally he found advertising matter in his own box like everybody else in town. In Stillwater, mail was delivered once a day. Soon after letters, magazines and newspapers had been put into the letter boxes, Ray closed his shop, where he made a living repairing radios, and hurried to the post-office. He was very disappointed if there was no mail for him, but he always had a feeling that one of these days he would get some. One afternoon, after watching Ray Buffin waiting for a letter at the post-office, two of the younger men in town, Guy Hodge and Ralph Barnhill, decided to play a joke on him. Their plan was to ask a girl in town to send Ray a love letter without signing it; and then somebody else was to take the letter out of his hand and read it aloud for every- body to hear. They asked Grace Brooks, the night switch operator at the telephone company to write the letter. Grace was a pretty woman with a fine figure. She had remained unmarried, and because she worked at night and slept in the daytime it was very difficult for her now, she knew, to find a husband. At first Grace said she would have nothing to do with (After Erskine Caldwell) their plan. Suddenly she turned away. She didn't want the young men to see her crying. She remembered the time she had got acquainted with Ray and the letter she had soon received from him. Ray had written to tell her how beauti- ful and lovely he thought she was and how much he loved her. He ended the letter by asking her to marry him. But she had just finished school then and had started to work for the telephone company; she was very young then and didn't want to marry anybody yet; and so Ray never got a reply. Time passed. During all those years she had seen him a few times but rarely more than a polite word had passed between them, and each time he looked sadder and sadder. After they left the telephone office Grace thought about Ray and cried. Late at night she wrote the letter. The next day Guy and Ralph were in the post-office at four o'clock. When Ray came in and saw a letter in his box he looked at it in surprise. He couldn't believe his eyes. He opened the box, took out the pale-blue envelope and went to the corner of the room to read it. When he finished he behaved like mad. He smiled happily and ran out of the room before the people there had time to say anything to stop him. The moment Guy and Ralph understood what had happened, they ran after him trying to stop him. But it was too late. Ray hurried round the corner to the telephone of- fice. When Ralph and Guy followed him they found Ray and Grace together.​ Ma ajuta și pe mine cineva? Mulțumesc!