Your absence also afflicts Sister Frances much, and she is in great anxiety about all of us.

She has the six little ones with her every day in her own apartment, and goes on teaching them as she used to do.

We six eldest go to see her as often as we can.

I should have begun, my dear Madame de Fleury, by telling you, that, the day after you left Paris, I went to deliver all the letters you were so very kind to write for us in the midst of your hurry.

Your friends have been exceedingly good to us, and have got places for us all.