We traveled night and day, arriving here at about five o'clock.

Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any telegram had arrived for him, whilst the rest of us came on to this hotel, "the Odessus." The journey may have had incidents.

I was, however, too eager to get on, to care for them.

Until the Czarina Catherine comes into port there will be no interest for me in anything in the wide world.

Thank God! Mina is well, and looks to be getting stronger.