... I am so glad to hear of your being so happy, dear child (dear me, I suppose I ought to be more respectful to so venerable a matron!) I daresay if I heard the other side of the question it would not be so full of wailings over your incompetencies general and particular as yours is.... I should like exceedingly to see you in your new sphere ... and please thank your husband very much for taking me so much on trust as to want to see me,—though perhaps, after all, the real compliment is to _you_! It will be a great pleasure for me to come to you for a few days when I am next in the North.” [Received May 10th, 1865.] I had hoped to pay you a visit before this, and I am afraid you will be disappointed as well as myself when I tell you it must now, I fear, be indefinitely deferred, for circumstances have made me decide rather hurriedly to pay a long-planned visit to America for the purpose of learning something about the schools and colleges there. I am to start from Liverpool on Saturday the 27th., and am going to take with me a girl whom you will perhaps hardly remember at Qu: College:—indeed I think she was after your time,—Isabel Bain. “May 14th., 1865. DEAR LUCY, I should like exceedingly to see you if it were possible before sailing for America, and your letter has made me wish more than ever to do so. If I found it just possible to come to you for one day and night, would you think it worth while to have me? I do not know what the possibilities are,—are you _in_ the town?—or would it be an undertaking to get to you from the station? Would it upset you all terribly if I came and went at unearthly hours as I might have to do? I should like to see you exceedingly, and I should like _very_ much to see your husband,—if my coming in such a rush and making such a fuss wouldn’t make him hate me. Thank you very much for your photograph. There are no decent ones of me, but I will see if I can find you up one of the least bad.” The visit was paid in due course, and proved successful in every way. Mr. Unwin frankly shared his wife’s admiration for the character and gifts of her old college friend, and this was by no means the last visit she paid to their Yorkshire home. * * * * *