Miss Opal Denning lived in Terre Haute, the city on the highlands above the Wabash River in west-central Indiana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre_Haute,_Indiana
It appears that Miss Denning has a job outside the home, as her mail is addressed in care of “Albrecht & Co.”
I found an on-line reference to a dry goods merchant named Albrecht in Terre Haute, but very little additional information about possible employers of Miss Denning.
In May of 1908, Opal received a romantic postcard from F. E. G.
The postcard was mailed from Creston, a city in south-central Iowa.
Creston was founded as a railroad camp of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad – and the city name reflects the location on the high point between the Missouri and Mississippi River basins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creston,_Iowa
The face of the postcard displays a couple sharing an intense moment – the young woman seems to be grasping the vest of the man whose arm encircles her shoulder.
The couple is well-dressed, the young woman in an elaborate dress and the man wearing a suit- and holding his hat and walking stick in the hand not engaged with his companion.
Above the pair, a verse describes the wild desire of a lover for the beloved.
“I care not for the stars that shine,
I do not hope to e’er be thine,
I only know I love you,
Love me, and the world is mine!
On the reverse, the message from F.E.G. sounds a note of annoyance.
The sender asks, “What is the matter over the river”.
The writer has “not heard from you”.
F.E.G has “been looking for a letter this long while”.
Nevertheless, the message concludes with a friendly, “Yours as ever”.
One hopes that Opal responded to her friend, that F.E.G. received a letter, and that the correspondents did not suffer the pangs of desperate and unsatisfied love.
