How could I, when to be like them was the thing I dreaded most of all?
I do believe they tried to be kind, especially your brothers, and I shall ever be grateful to them for their attempt to please and interest me during that dreadful winter I spent alone, with you in Washington.

You did wrong, Richard, not to take me with you, when I wanted so much to go.

I know that, after what happened, you and your mother think you were fully justified in what you did; but, Richard, you are mistaken.

The very means you took to avert a catastrophe hastened it instead.

The cruel disappointment and terrible homesickness which I endured hastened our baby's birth, and cost its little life.