‘No fashionable lady,--no insipid individual, such as you must talk to about weather, etc., but a fine, thoughtful young Man,--who had been given a New Testament, which he is reading every day, and who sat down on the floor, and quietly, gravely, asked me to explain difficulties which he had met with in his reading, such as Daniel’s “abomination of desolation,” the two women grinding, etc.... When he left, I returned to my beauty screen, but was interrupted by dear good Bibi M., who came to read her report. She also wanted quinine,--I am _rich_, my Laura knows. This brought me up to 3 o’clock dinner.