"THE LOOK"-- RUBENS--MRS.

BUNDLE AGAIN My widowed father and I were both terribly lonely.

The depths of his loss in the lovely and lovable wife who had been his constant companion for nearly six years I could not fathom at the time.

For my own part, I was quite as miserable as I have ever been since, and I doubt if I shall ever feel such overwhelming desolation again, unless the same sorrow befalls me as then befell him.
I "fretted"-- as the servants expressed it--to such an extent as to affect my health; and I fancy it was because my father's attention was called to the fact that I was fast fading after the mother and sister whose death (and my own loneliness) I bewailed, that he roused himself from his own grief to comfort mine.

Once more I was "dressed" after tea.