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if she had them married & living in the next street
like so many Tindals. It is not distance that alienates
– just the other way.

The news about my poor Cubby was a terrible shock
to me. I heard from Raymond last week that he
had got a slight attack of typhoid but was perfectly out
of danger. The whole fatal developement was within
the last 24 hours. His father & mother were both dead,
so the nearest relation was his aunt, Lady Ridley, who
wrote to me. She said that in his last delirium he
thought he was on board ship coming out to join me
in S. Africa. You know I had practically got H.E.
persuaded to bring him out to help me, and I
cannot forgive myself that I did not hurry on the
matter & the whole thing might have been saved.
He was one of my nearest friends, & though I have a