By this system you avoid disappointing those whose hopes may remain unchanged, as your own choices, as it were, are not yet made.

Parties, which at present are so nearly balanced, remain _in statu quo_, and you gain time.
I must conclude now this letter.

My winding up is, keep your mind _cool_ and _easy_; be _not alarmed_ at the prospect of becoming perhaps sooner than you expected Queen; aid will not be wanting, and the great thing is that you should have some honest people about you who have your welfare _really at heart_.

Stockmar will be in this respect all we can wish, and we must hope that _useful_ occupation will prevent his health from suffering.

Now once more God bless you.
Ever, my dear child, your faithful Uncle and Friend, LEOPOLD R.
[Footnote 48: The entry into Paris of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, who had been married at Fontainebleau on May 30th.] [Pageheading: THE ACCESSION IMMINENT] _The King of the Belgians to the Princess Victoria._ LAEKEN, _15th June 1837._ MY BELOVED CHILD,--I hope that to-day will not pass over without bringing me a letter from you.