forgive me for being so lazy as I have not been able for some time to go to sleep before 1 and sometimes 2 o'clock in the morning, and you know it is impossible if I do not sleep well at night to get up early in the morning. You say that on Tuesday morning you were in the garden admiring the dew drops on the flowers and thinking that I might be doing the same. Is it not strange that I was doing so that morning. I remember I stood for some time at the end of the verandah looking at a spider's web on which the dew sparkled like diamonds in the sun, and I thought of you and wondered where you were and what you were doing. It is strange we were both admiring the same thing that morning. I must now conclude my letter for I feel very much fatigued. It was past 4 o'clock this morning when I went to bed. I am so sleepy I hardly