24/27 I am glad, exceedingly glad. Her temperament--I have got reconciled to her affliction--craves the gaiety which London denies her. I had to go out to get something for lunch (my conviction, it appears, was right), and I thought I might as well take an omnibus to Charing Cross and send a telegram." "But when are you going to pack ?" "I did that last night. I didn't get to bed till four this morning. I only made up my mind after you had gone," she added, in anticipation of a possible question. |