Alaric says he will not go down till the Saturday after, when I shall be at Normansgrove.

My best love to the girls.

Tell Katie I shan't drown either myself or the boat.
'Yours ever affectionately, 'H.

N.
'Saturday, September, 185-.
'Pray write me a kind letter to comfort me.' Mrs.Woodward did write him a very kind letter, and it did comfort him.

And she wrote also, as she was bound to do, a letter of congratulation to Alaric.