[About Ruskin.] ... I tried to bring up St. C. on the Arabian Nights, but he wouldn't and I read him the story of the barber to make him laugh; his mother was by and said she was always interested in the Egyptians because of their connection with God's chosen people. I thought that funnier than the story of the barber. It was a difficult evening and I wished I hadn't begun to read, I tried very hard to bring him up, bless him, but he wouldn't be brought up. Also I must say he wanted to bring me up and I wouldn't - he was a most difficult child. Do you remember when I let myself be put in a pillory to help him a Whistler's trial ... and even thought him wrong and Whistler right in a way, and yet he was right. He had lifted all England by his life and given himself and wasted himself: it would have been a shame not to be on his side. ...