346 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES 1894 



The journey to England was apparently borne 

 without undue fatigue, and the home coming was 

 very bright, with joyous meeting with his children 

 and with various friends. The only difficulty was to 

 keep him quiet enough. It was said one day, ' When 

 you go home you must not see too many people.' 

 ' Oh, no,' he replied, ' I only want to see Paget, and 

 Dr. Sanderson, and Grore, and Philip (Waggett), and 



Mrs. Woods, and Eay Lankester, and ' but he 



stopped, laughing, the list was already so long and 

 would soon have been doubled. For a few days his 

 wife was away, and during this brief absence a very 

 dear friend. Miss Eose Price, the daughter of the 

 Master of Pembroke, died. 



He writes : 



To Mrs. Romanes. 



How glad I am you are still mine ! I have 

 just returned from Eose's funeral, which was all but 

 too much for me. As you know, I have seen other 

 such things on a grander scale, but never any 

 approach to this one in point of beauty and pathos. 

 The College Chapel was completely filled with 

 members of the University, with wives and daughters, 

 yet all personal friends of hers, including all members 

 of the family, the poor Master separated from the 

 rest in his official seat. All the undergraduates of 

 Pembroke were present, each provided with a lovely 

 wreath, carried in procession to the grave. The whole 

 of the east end was one mass of white flowers, the 

 coffin with its own flowers being placed in the middle 

 of the aisle. The procession walked first all round 

 the quad, and then through Christ Church Meadows, 

 being met at Holywell by the choir.^ 



' Of St. Giles's Parish Church. 



