The latter was very much of an invalid at the time; so much so, as I think I have gathered from my wife's talk about those times, as to have prevented her from being a visitor to "The Braddons." But Theodosia was, I take it, to be very frequently found by the side of the sofa to which her friend was more or less confined.

I fancy that Mr.Kenyon, who was an old friend and family connection of Elizabeth Barrett's family, and was also intimately acquainted with the Garrows and with Theodosia, must have been the first means of bringing the girls together.

There were assuredly _very_ few young women in England at that day to whom Theodosia Garrow in social intercourse would have had to look _up_, as to one on a higher intellectual level than her own.

But Elizabeth Barrett was one of them.

I am not talking of _acquirements_.