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This last page is to you alone dearest child - you can tear it off. They have told you of course that it is all over between me and Mr B. It was not a quarrel nor his fault. I seemed to feel by degrees that it would not do. He was weak about holding onto me though he was perfectly true. He felt when I left that it would come to this - my absence made it easier for him at the last. I do not think it hurts him more than me now. It hurts me a great deal. If he had only been a little different I could have been so happy with him. I can never feel so tenderly, nor so satisfied with any one else all round - though I often see other men who are far superior to him in particular. You can imagine that this is a great reason for my staying over though it is hard to be so long without a sight of all your dear faces - the children will almost forget