A little later one heard that Sherard had seen him, and brought about a reconciliation with his wife.

Mrs.Wilde had been very good and had gone to the prison and had no doubt comforted him.

Much to be hoped from all this....
For months and months the situation in South Africa took all my heart and mind.
In the first days of January, 1896, came the Jameson Raid, and I sailed for South Africa.

I had work to do for _The Saturday Review_, absorbing work by day and night.

In the summer I was back in England, but the task of defending the Boer farmers grew more and more arduous, and I only heard that Oscar was going on as well as could be expected.
Some time later, after he had been transferred to Reading Gaol, bad news leaked out, news that he was breaking up, was being punished, persecuted.