man would do et a country house, and sat talking there very amusingly till the dinner-bell rang.
We ate our Afghan dinner, which was very good; a kid roasted whole and stuffed with pistachio nuts was the chief item, and quantities of sweetmeats.
Resina has improved wonderfully the last two days, and Dr. does not despair of making a complete cure.
I went to church this morning, but was obliged to come out, being nearly blind with the heat. I never will try morning church again in this season.
God bless you, dearest!
You may answer this letter and the next, but — after that there will be no time for answers. Oh, dear! how pleasant it will be, and how clever of us to have brought that immense banishment so near to an end——not much more than six months, and what is that to anybody who has been six years away? It will be too great happiness. I hardly ever can think steadily of it.
Yours most affectionately,
E. E.
