The following fall, the loved secretary, Dr. Mitchell, and Mrs. Mitchell visited our mission and gave us all much advice and help, for which we were most grateful. We were not then quite so well housed as now. Our homes were mud-walled and rather damp, often leaking badly in rainy season and admitting much frosty air through numerous cracks in the winter. Many of our windows were not glazed, but merely covered with paper. During the doctor’s visit there came one night a heavy storm of wind and rain, which beat against the window near our bed, and thoroughly demolished it, the rain pouring in on the floor. The roof leaked over us, but with umbrellas and waterproofs we kept quite dry. In the morning, however, at the sight of the flooded floor and the paper windows hanging in shreds, Dr. Mitchell gave us a severe reprimand for our carelessness, warning us that missionaries are far too expensive commodities to be so ill protected. A lesson it were well for all young missionaries to learn, but which, as a rule, alas! they are too slow to heed. CHAPTER VI An Audience at the Palace--Dancing Girls--Entertainment Given after the Audience--Printing the Dictionary and Grammar--A Korean in Japan--Fasting to Feast--Death of Mr. Davies--Dr. Heron’s Sickness--Mrs. Heron’s Midnight Ride--Dr. Heron’s Death--Difficulty in Getting a Cemetery Concession--Forced Return to America--Compensations--Chemulpo in Summer--The “Term Question” in China, Korea and Japan--Difficulties in the Work.