my work with the intention of doing a great deal but I was stopt in the middle of it by Mrs Inglis and Miss Hutton coming in. It is very foolish but I cannot get on with what I am doing at present when any one is in. I do not know how other people manage. I suppose they are not as stupid as me. I am quite as badly off at night. You know what a great deal of curiosity Papa has about letters and he is the same with regard to my work. I am sure he asked me half a dozen times on Saturday what I was doing and as it was an unpleasant question to answer I had to put it off the best way I could. Once or twice I pretended not to hear. I am sure Papa has not the least idea that anything is required. I think you must have made a mistake in fancying that he did. I think the reason he takes so much care of me is because he imagines I am in delicate health and not for any other reasons. What nonsense I am writing to you dearest.