pleasant. Catherine made me the present of a beautiful white dress and wreath which looked so pretty. I spend the Saturdays with a kind family who know a number of Highlanders and there I met with a number of Gaelic students & where I do get such fun. They tease me so about forgetting my Gaelic language. I tell them not to distress themselves in the least about that as I shall very soon forget how to speak English as there is not a word talked in my present abode but French & German and all who are caught speaking English get the punishment of parading through the schoolroom before all the young ladies with a medal of disobedience suspended around our necks and as I have no wish to