Dear Lytton! At intervals he talks and can hear reading, but this morning he is lower again.

In fact, from the first he has been very apprehensive about himself--inclined to talk of divine things, of the state of his soul and God's love, and to hold this life but slackly.
I feel I am writing a horrible account to you.

You will conclude the worst from it, and that is what I don't want you to do.

The pulse has never been high, and is now much lower, and if he can be kept from a relapse he will live.

I pray God he may live.