LEWES." * * * * * "DEAR MRS.

TROLLOPE,--While I am reading _La Beata_ I constantly feel as if Mr.Trollope were present telling it all to me _viva voce_.

It seems to me more thoroughly and fully like himself than any of his other books.

And in spite of our having had the most of his society away from you" [on our Camaldoli excursion] "you are always part of his presence to me in a hovering aerial fashion.

So it seems quite natural that a letter addressed to him should have a postscript addressed to you.