Write again, and be happy, Isa; it is as if I said _be good_.

Tell me, can it be true that Lytton is in Florence with his mother, as Father Prout assures us on the authority of Lady Walpole ?...
Write to your ever, in word and deed, loving BA.
* * * * * In October the travellers were back in Florence, but this time only for a short stay of some six weeks, since it was decided that Rome would be more suitable to Mrs.Browning's failing health during the winter.

On November 24 they reached Rome, and for the next six months were quartered, as in the winter of 1853-4, at No.

43 Via Bocca di Leone.
Here it was that they heard the first mutterings of the storm which was to burst during the following year and to result in the making of Italy.
* * * * * _To Miss E.F.

Haworth_ Casa Guidi: Saturday [about October 1858].
You do not come, dearest Fanny, though I am here waiting, and I begin to be uneasy about you.