My child was born here, and here I have been very happy and _well_.

Yet we shall not live in Florence--we are steady to our Paris plan.

We must visit Rome next winter, and in the spring we shall go to Paris _via_ London; you may rely on us for next summer.

I think it too probable that I may not be able to bear two successive winters in the North; but in that case it will be easy to take a flight for a few winter months into Italy, and we shall regard Paris, where Robert's father and sister are waiting for us, as our fixed place of residence.

As to the distance between Paris and London, it's a mere step now.