I hope Mr.Hawker will use you kindly.

Your father hopes that you and he may come down and live near him, but we know that is impossible.

If your father were to know of your husband's fearful delinquencies, it would kill him at once.

But when trouble comes on you, my love, as it must in the end, remember that there is still a happy home left you here." These letters she never received.

George burnt them without giving them to her, so that for a year she remained under the impression that they had cast her off.