not do. I shall never get on with my work at this rate so I am determined to commence in earnest tomorrow and give up fretting how much I wish I was with you. It is a great shame in Doctor Featherstone to forbid me. I am sure it would have done me no harm. I could not be ill with my dear husband beside me. Miss Hart walked nearly all the way home with me. She was talking to me about this unfortunate business of Wednesday night. She says that ever since then her mother has been against the marriage. She does not know what the cause of the change is as she was quite agreeable to it at first. Miss Hart told me that it will all end in nothing as she will not do anything to displease her mother and that now she and Mr Park must meet only as friends. She says that she is blamed for having taken that walk which is a great shame as