His wife was more detached, more critical towards her native land.

The best symptom for Italian freedom was that if Italy had not energy to act, she yet had energy to hate.

To be happy now they both must turn to imaginative work, and gain all the gains possible from private friendships.

Browning was already occupied with the poems included afterwards in the volumes of _Men and Women_.

Mrs Browning was already engaged upon _Aurora Leigh_.