| Description | She is writing to Maria, fearing that her husband's health is not up to a barrister's life, and hearing from Clara Worship that he is in a delicate plight. She hopes the 'Roman scheme' will turn out well. Mary has only a small domestic occurance to write about, the arrival of a new injector and five extra needles. It has no screw and the morphine must be squirted in, but it works well. She tried one of the new gold needles at 11.35am and notes the difficulty of getting it into her arm. She was glad to read that John had recorse to morphine so rarely, as he has no disease. Her own worst attacks of bronchitis and threatened suffocation would have been helped by the treatment. The Accountant General does not realise how resolute John is concerning the reimbursement issue. She has read in the newspapers that the Secretary of State has declined to sanction the Mysore Railway and wonders what will become of Captain Lindsay's appointment. She sends a 'Saturday Review' and 'Pall Mall Gazette' but has not heard from 'BRB' since her eclipse letter. |