"No. 8 FORE STREET, HOLTON,"
"May 5, 189—."
"MY DEAR NIECE,—I am writing immediately on receipt of your letter
to tell you how grieved we are to hear that Dick is so unwell. I fear,
my dear Margaret, that you have no choice but to bravely face
the trouble which presents itself to most English mothers in India—
that God will call upon you to give up your boy to the charge of those
who are strangers to him at an age when he most wants his mother's care.
Of course I agree with you that your place is with your husband,
at any rate as long as your health will stand the climate."