110 A GARDEN DIARY 
Lonpon, FEBRUARY 16, 1900 
OD be thanked! God be thanked! one of 
them, at least, is safe. Kimberley has been 
relieved, and the others, assuredly the others will 
follow? This leap from a midnight of gloom 
to a midday of joy has been almost too great ; 
life, even for the most placid, has become too 
breathless, too crowded ; let me pause a moment 
and recapitulate. I came to London upon Saint 
Valentine’s day, the 14th; S. S. being on her 
way south; circumstances delayed her a day, 
and in that day all this happened. We had 
gone to see a friend; she left me to take a turn 
in the Park; in a few minutes she returned 
breathlessly ; she had met a park-keeper and he 
had told her the news. Five minutes more we 
were both in the park; ‘had caught the same 
inspired park-keeper, and had fallen upon him 
simultaneously. 
“Ts it true? How do you know? Who told 
you?” 
