am terribly sorry, Hattie, to deliver this devastating news as well as for my failure to be there at the final moment. I am grateful we were able to spend so much time with you in Scotland, and I am heartbroken that I didn’t get more time with our Sybil (I am certain you will feel the same). It pains me to think of her alone, possibly afraid, and yet perhaps it is as she would have wanted. Her life, she said to me only very recently, had become so full these last few years, and yet I know that from certain things, now she is free.
