IN MEMORIAM 
61 
“Miss Scott has been unfailing in her great kindness all the time and never 
found anything a bother, though I am not a perfect patient. Everyone has 
been so kind and to crown all, when I asked the chemist for my account 
(the man there was an old friend from the Dealesville days) he telephoned 
back that neither the doctor nor they were making me any charge for attend- 
ance nor medicines. I felt quite overwhelmed, for Dr Hodgins came a great 
deal when I was bad and was so kind and cheery always. Really the amount 
of kindness one meets with is simply wonderful, and makes one’s heart full 
of gratitude, does it not? ” In spite of the illness that marred her last holiday 
and proved fatal, she had the pleasure of visiting many of her old friends and 
beloved haunts in the Free State and Basutoland and was able to go to the 
Nek — “my first try at a climb, and we took it gently with plenty of stops 
to see the views, and I got up quite comfortably, much to my pride. Up there, 
on a ridge, with mountains running away on each side; and over the near 
green or ploughed valleys, hill after hill, away to the blue distance ! One way 
we looked right to Lastron and Aliwal; another way to a peak just close to 
Bloemfontein; and a third vista to the border of Natal! That’s what I call 
satisfying to one’s soul. Those magnificent spaces up in the mountains are 
so restful to me — the farther the distance the more I am satisfied; and I feel 
I have just been drinking in space and beauty enough to last me till my 
next holiday ! ” 
She was buried in the cemetery at Plumstead on the “Flats” she had so 
often traversed, and in view of the mountains she had climbed with such 
eager delight. 
H. M. L. B. 
