I must relate another incident of our sojourn at Cape Town.
Introduced by Mr.Rhodes's architect, Mr.Baker, we went one day to see a Mrs.Koopman, then a well-known personage in Cape Town Dutch society, but who, I believe, is now dead.

Her collection of Delft china was supposed to be very remarkable.

She lived in a quaint old house with diamond-paned windows, in one of the back streets, the whole edifice looking as if it had not been touched for a hundred years.

Mrs.Koopman was an elderly lady, most suitably dressed in black, with a widow's cap, and she greeted us very kindly and showed us all her treasured possessions.

I was disappointed in the contents of the rooms, which were certainly mixed, some very beautiful things rubbing shoulders with modern specimens of clumsy early Victorian furniture.