How thankful I am that I received strength to repay that love in watching her to the last. I must say goodnight now my dearest husband as it is very late. Wednesday night My dear husband must forgive his pussy if I only write a few lines tonight as I feel very much fatigued and I would like to go soon to bed. I went today to plant flowers on Mama's grave. I was very anxious to get it done while the roads were a little better. They have been quite impassable for sometime up there, although I felt it very much still I felt a melancholy pleasure in planting the flowers on dear Mama's grave as it is the only way I can show my love for her. Poor Papa seems so pleased that I have done it. When I was coming home I went in to the Minister's to rest a little. I found that he was very ill and confined to bed. Mrs Kirton told me she was quite