Nov : 28 : 1888 My Darling, / Your kind gift of / game (pheasants and hare) / arrived just before I went / to Rottingdean last week, and / I have not been able till / now to write and ask you / to thank your husband and / yourself. / We had a delightful, / though very short, stay there, / all five of us and Mr. & / Mrs. Benson - for Mr. Benson / came down to look / at the little house / next door which we have just / bought, and which he is going / to alter so that there shall / be a room in it where Edward / may work. There was a / beautiful west wind, and / when the sun shines in that / treeless landscape you know / it looks always like sum- / mer. / Dear Madeline has / been to see me, and she and / Margaret have lunched with / each other I believe - so / grown up and clever! Does / it not seem wonderful even to / you, dear, to have those two / going about the world as / they now do, bless them? / I am very glad Madeline is / so near you in London, and / to Belgrave Sqre too, for I / fell it makes all the dif- / erence myself to know that / Margaret is only a mile away / instead of even on the other / side of London. / I wonder wither the / stream of time has carried / you since we met - one / thing I am sure of, your affec- / tion - and of mine for you. / Now I am going to offer / to read to Edward who is / working, (always working) / under great difficulties - / a black day and a / cold one. / I am ever, my darling, / Your very loving friend / Georgie