At first she could only remain seated in the easy-chair which he found for her in the city.
For a day there was much alarm on behalf of the boy, now able to run about, who lay with heavy head and glassy eyes in a half-stupor; but presently he was astir again, and his "singing voice" was heard in the house and garden.

Mrs Browning in the fresh yet warm September air regained her strength.

Before returning to Florence, they spent a week in the city to see the churches and the pictures by Sodoma.

Even little Wiedemann screamed for church-interiors and developed remarkable imitative pietisms of a theatrical kind.

"It was as well," said Browning, "to have the eyeteeth and the Puseyistical crisis over together." This comment, although no more than a passing word spoken in play, gives a correct indication of Browning's feeling, fully shared in by his wife, towards the religious movement in England which was altering the face of the established Church.