BROWNING IN LATER LIFE Browning's confidences, what there were of them, immediately after his wife's death were given to several women-friends; all his life, indeed, he was chiefly intimate with women.

The two most intimate of these were his own sister, who remained with him in all his later years, and the sister of his wife, who seven years afterwards passed away in his presence as Elizabeth had done.

The other letters, which number only one or two, referring in any personal manner to his bereavement are addressed to Miss Haworth and Isa Blagden.

He left Florence and remained for a time with his father and sister near Dinard.

Then he returned to London and took up his residence in Warwick Crescent.