Writing home, she described drolly her absence from Batala as--‘this strange episode of my life;--seven weeks acting Superintendent of the Orphanage,--three of those weeks sole Missionary at Amritsar,--and--oh, bathos! ten days an ayah--for I had none other.’ Still her health seemed to keep good. She could stand the plains in hot weather as scarcely another Missionary was able to do. While one and another broke down, and had to be off to the Hills, Miss Tucker kept about, much the same as usual, filling up as far as possible the gaps left by others.