804 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1887, 
Our carriage was announced, and we took leave, a 
shorter way through the park being pointed out. Got 
back to Oxford just in time to take leave of H. (her 
husband out) and take a fly to train, and so to Lon- 
don; separated from the Hookers, who had to take a 
slip car, to be dropped at Reading. We went straight 
to Paddington without stop, and thence in a cab to the 
Deanery, where our dear good friends awaited us. 
Saturday afternoon, we were all going with the 
Churches to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s garden 
party at Lambeth Palace, when, at breakfast, Mrs. C. 
got an invitation from Mrs. Gladstone to hers, at 
Dollys Hill, up near Harrow, and the question of 
dividing forces came up. It was settled, as I wished, 
by Mrs. C., Fred, and I going by underground to the 
Gladstones, while J. and the Misses C. went by car- 
riage to Lambeth. Mrs. Gladstone sent her carriage 
down to the station, a mile off, which took us up to a 
pleasant country house, which some one (I think Lord 
Aberdeen) has lent to the G.O. M. It was all lucky 
forme. At Oxford, Bryce had asked me to his din- 
ner for July 6, where he said Gladstone wanted to 
meet me, and our engagements here made that impos- 
sible. At the garden party, while we were there, the 
people were few and a good chance to talk. Mrs. 
Gladstone was most gracious. Gladstone said he was 
very glad to see me in the flesh, and we had pleas- 
ant talk, of nothing in particular. Lord Granville 
sought an introduction, asked Lowell, who was there, 
to introduce him, and then introduced his brother, 
Lord Leveson Gower, and afterward his son. Then 
I was put at the tea-table at the side of Miss Glad- 
stone, the principal of Newnham College at Cam- 
bridge, a most bright and pleasant person ; and after 
