1890 LAST DAYS AT GEANIES 281 



To his Wife. 



As it is only a few hours since you left, there is 

 not much in the way of news, only that the house 

 seems very lonely. I am inclined to agree with 

 Sandy, who said while we were out that ' Please he 

 had never felt so full of sorrow since he was at 

 Geanies as he did when he saw the mistress driving 

 away ; it was all he could do to keep from hursting 

 out crying.' Give my love to the ' Fair One.' * 



I ordered breakfast at 8.30, and heard Fritz and 

 Ernest their Latin, very much impressed by the 

 result. I had no idea they knew so much. Dinner 

 tranf erred to 7.30 so as to admit of Fritz keeping me 

 company. 



I have been shooting with Pat Sellar. I can 

 shoot better but not so well as I used. Partridges 

 very wild, so we only bagged six brace. 



Geanies : November 1890. 



I really have three of your dear letters to answer. 

 I did not write yesterday. I have had one continu- 

 ous headache ; it is now nearly away, but the matter 

 is getting serious, and I have written to Edward, 2 

 to send the ' home trainer ' to Oxford, so that I 

 may lose no time in giving his cure (exercise) a 

 trial. 



Don't get low about me ; I begin to doubt if these 

 headaches are due to gout at all, and somehow or 

 other I shall find a means of preventing them. 



1 A pet name for Mrs. Ingham. 2 Mr. E. B. Turner, F.E.C.S. 



