I wish I could tell you something cheerful about all your
friends here, but I'm afraid I can't. Your aunt is so brave and
plucky that probably she said nothing to you in her last letter
about how ill she has been, but she's just had a very bad bout, and
at one time we were afraid that we were going to lose her. You can
imagine how anxious we all were. But she is better again now,
although very much shattered. The Chapel is closed. There's a piece
of news for you! It never recovered from poor Warlock's death; he
was the spirit that gave it life, and although he may have had his
dreams and imaginations that deceived him, there was some life in
that building that I have never found anywhere else and shall never
find again. You remember that Amy Warlock married that scamp
Thurston. Well, she has left him and has come back to live with her
mother. She had a rather bad experience, I'm afraid, poor woman, but
she says nothing to any one about it. She and the old lady have
moved from this part of London and have gone to live somewhere in
Kensington. Some one saw Martin Warlock in Paris the other day. I
hear that he has been very seriously ill and is greatly changed,
looking years older.
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