It would be some return for his great kindness, for it must be a dreadful nuisance to have an old clergyman with a broken leg and his inconvenient daughter suddenly quartered upon you for an unlimited period of time." The record of the following weeks was very full, but almost entirely concerned--brief mention of other things, such as her father's health excepted--with full and accurate notes and descriptions of the aerophone experiments.

To Morris reading them it was wonderful, especially as Stella had received no training in the science of electricity, that she could have grasped the subject thus thoroughly in so short a time.
Evidently she must have had a considerable aptitude for its theory and practice, as might be seen by the study that she gave to the literature which he lent her, including some manuscript volumes of his own notes.
Also there were other entries.

Thus: "To-day Mr.Stephen Layard proposed to me in the Dead Church.

I had seen it coming for the last three weeks and wished to avoid it, but he would not take a hint.

I am most sorry, as I really think he cares about me--for the while--which is very kind of him.