So let it be for a while.
"Alas! my friend, since we parted on the shores of the Red Sea, tragedy has pursued me.

As you will know, for both my husband and I wrote to you, although you did not answer the letters" (I never received them), "we reached England safely and took up our old life again, though to tell you the truth, after my African experiences things could never be quite the same to me, or for the matter of that to George either.

To a great extent he changed his pursuits and certain political ambitions which he once cherished, seemed no longer to appeal to him.

He became a student of past history and especially of Egyptology, which under all the circumstances you may think strange, as I did.

However it suited me well enough, since I also have tastes that way.