Mrs.Browning believed in him and trusted him.

We did neither.

Hence the following interesting and curious letter, written to my wife at Florence by Mrs.Browning, who was passing the summer at Siena.

Mrs.Browning felt very warmly upon this subject--so indeed did my wife, differing from her _toto coelo_ upon it.

But the difference not only never caused the slightest suspension of cordial feeling between them, but never caused either of them to doubt for a moment that the other was with equal sincerity and equal ardour anxious for the same end.