It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.
Noi non avevamo nessuna occupazione fissa, e l'avvenimento felice, che avevaci riunite, inebriava Diana e Maria.