Budapest, 24 August.

"My dearest Lucy,
"I know you will be anxious to hear all that since we at the railway station at Whitby.
"Well, my dear, I to Hull all right, and the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming to Jonathan, and that as I should have to do some nursing, I had better get all the sleep I could. I my dear one, oh, so thin and pale and weak-looking. All the resolution out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I you was in his face . He is only a wreck of himself, and he does not remember anything that to him for a long time past. At least, he wants me to believe so, and I shall
never ask.
"He some terrible shock, and I fear it might tax his poor brain if he were to try to recall it. Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse, tells me that he wanted her to tell me what they were, but she would only cross herself, and say she would never tell. That the ravings of the sick were the secrets of God, and that if a nurse through her vocation should hear them, she should respect her trust..