He attended with her the services of the Church, which satisfied him whenever they were performed with the reverent simplicity familiar to his boyhood.

Happily he was not left alone.

He had two young children to love, and his eldest daughter was able to take her stepmother's place as mistress of his house.

With the children he left London as soon as he could, and tried to occupy his mind by reading to them from Don Quixote, or, on a Sunday, from The Pilgrim's Progress.

To the end of his life he felt his loss; and when he was offered, fifteen years later, the chance of going back to his beloved Derreen, he shrank from the associations it would have recalled.
He took a house for his family in Wales, which he described in the following letter to Lady Derby: "CROGAN HOUSE, Corwen, June 3rd, 1874.
"I do not know if I told you upon what a curious and interesting old place we have fallen for our retirement.