She thinks of him incessantly, and writes whole treatises to him by way of letters.

Her blank disappointment at his announcement of his inability to pay us a visit quite so soon as he had promised, was quite tragic.

I, too, am disappointed, for I wanted to see and estimate him.

But having arranged to go to Holland to seize some aerial effects for his pictures, which are only to be obtained at this time of the autumn, he is obliged to postpone his journey this way, which is now to be made early in the new year.

I think myself that he ought to have come at all sacrifices, considering Caroline's recent loss, the sad postponement of what she was looking forward to, and her single-minded affection for him.