8/33 Like most calamities it happened in a foolishly accidental manner. He received a letter from Jane during the last three weeks of a tour--they always kept up an affectionate but desultory correspondence--giving a new address. The lease of her aunt's house having fallen in, they were moving to the south side of London. When he desired to answer the letter, he found he had lost it and could not remember the suburb, much less the street and number, whither Jane had migrated. |