[17]. Life of Octavia Hill.
[18]. Miss Heaton.
[19]. By the charm of his personality, she means, of course; not by design.
[20]. Life of Octavia Hill.
[21]. Until circumstances rendered Miss Hill independent of such aid.
[22]. Dr. Southwood Smith, Miss Hill’s grandfather.
[23]. Miss Miranda Hill.
[24]. Poems by A. A. Procter.
[25]. The letter has not been preserved.
[26]. More than a year later Miss Hill wrote: “I wonder if it would be any comfort to you if you could know the infinite love the thought of you, specially of any pain of yours, calls up ... how passionately do I cling to a like trust in you that your pain may not be tenfold increased ... by any sense of desertion in spirit.... And yet, Sophy, this thought of me must fail you as time goes on, for you cannot see why I act as I do.... My love will be ready for you when He who is teaching us both shall bring us together again.”