After this he sank gradually and gently day by day, and so departed from us on the last dread journey.

Miss Elmslie (who knows that I am writing this) desires me to express her deep and lasting gratitude for all your kindness to Alfred.

She told me when we brought him back that she had waited for him as his promised wife, and that she would nurse him now as a wife should; and she never left him.

His face was turned toward her, his hand was clasped in hers when he died.

It will console you to know that he never mentioned events at Naples, or the shipwreck that followed them, from the day of his return to the day of his death." Three days after reading the letter I was at Wincot, and heard all the details of Alfred's last moments from the priest.