BOOK VI: THE PURSUIT IN THE FOREST.
RUPERT'S JOURNAL--_Continued_.
_July_ 3, 1907.
There is no anodyne but work to pain of the heart; and my pain is all of the heart.

I sometimes feel that it is rather hard that with so much to make me happy I cannot know happiness.

How can I be happy when my wife, whom I fondly love, and who I know loves me, is suffering in horror and loneliness of a kind which is almost beyond human belief?
However, what is my loss is my country's gain, for the Land of the Blue Mountains is my country now, despite the fact that I am still a loyal subject of good King Edward.

Uncle Roger took care of that when he said I should have the consent of the Privy Council before I might be naturalized anywhere else.
When I got home yesterday morning I naturally could not sleep.

The events of the night and the bitter disappointment that followed my exciting joy made such a thing impossible.