This proved quite intolerable, and Henrietta went to stay with her uncle Daniel Jansenius, a jolly and indulgent man.

He opined that things would come right as soon as both parties grew more sensible; and, as to which of them was, in fault, his verdict was, six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Whenever he saw his niece pensive or tearful he laughed at her and called her a grass widow.

Henrietta found that she could endure anything rather than this.

Declaring that the world was hateful to her, she hired a furnished villa in St.John's Wood, whither she moved in December.