and hard she turned round and a who happened to be passing what is the fuss john she asked in her brisk pleasant capable voice he told her that we were just nurse turned round and looked at ma now i wonder she said in her brisk way i wonder whether we shall have a word from your good husband at all events whether or no we shall have the satisfaction of sending a cable to him by chapter xi mr of i did receive a message hy cable from my husband that day indeed as soon as we at ad i it seemed very short bat really it was as long as i could reasonably expect it said � no frontier news all anxiety nurse sent off oar message to from this place she merely steadily improving it is no wasting money she said sensibly because we have no more information than that to give him and of course he will have a letter from you much earlier than you can have one from him i felt more after i had received s message because if things remained quiet on the frontier and the threatened were there was more than a chance that he would be able to follow us and spend at least some time with as in england i now that the of parting was over regretted that i had been as it were forced into leaving india it was plain to the meanest observation that the doctors had been right in saying that such a journey would be the making of me with every day i recovered strength and became less of an invalid i do not mean to say tiiat j l oo mc mt impressions of home i was well or that i was io anything like a condition of health bat i was not so terribly shattered and nerve broken aa i had been daring the few weeks i was able to take an interest in the child and to talk a little to my and to read write quite long letters to i to write lying in my deck chair upon a propped half on my knee and half the arm of my chair though i was only strong to do bat a few lines at a time so our long journey wore itself away when we reached nurse insisted npon my going on shore and taking a drive she also me into several and tried to arouse my interest in that way oh i was very much better i had been and after we got out of the and into tjie breezes picked up my in a most manner why nurse exclaimed to me one day when i was walking on deck captain would hardly know you i to think that this brisk lady is the death like little creature he carried on is almost incredible i i don t feel like a brisk lady i said no no but you feel very different to what did and you look a pounds better while that dear baby is already a perfect that was quite true and by the time that we reached onr i could not shut my eyes to the immense improvement which had taken place in my own appearance i was more like dear father s than i had been at time since my how well i remember my first sight of english the of mt shores of home � the home for which i had longed so eagerly all my life what a strange fate it was that i should have come to it alone i had planned bo often in my childhood the home coming with my dear mother i had to come home with my father and both were lying asleep in their indian graves and would never see their native land again then i had been so resolute in saying that i would never return my husband and by what a accident i had been forced from my resolution and sent across all those weary miles of land and sea to seek health and strength upon the shores of my native land alone except for a little child who understood as yet nothing of the difference between one country and another we reached just at the end of october and after staying there for a single night went the following day to london on the whole i was disappointed � yes intensely disappointed i had expected such a grand city almost that it would really be paved with gold i had thought to see great palaces and the broad and to see crowds of happy people up and down as i had been accustomed to see the people up and down the different in india and the was gloom or the of sunlight and shadow splendid cheek by with sordid tumble down dwellings beautiful horses and side hy side with and donkey carts b and each other and mingling with both strange painted women with manners us brazen aa their singularly hair it is horrible i to what a dread ht of home city what what what bustle oh i don t like this london ah yon will get used to that she said quietly when yon have settled down comfortably in hotel have had dinner yon will feel more at home and to morrow morning when yoa see sir os he will tell yon whether you ought to remain here or where yon should go for the best i don t like your london i said vehemently whatever sir says of my health i would not stay in the smoke the gloom the they are all detestable ah well it is the end of october it is the worst part of the year she said with the indifference of one who is evidently quite used to the general atmosphere see she said looking oat that is the national where all the pictures are it 