I hope very much that in this case GÇ£no news is good newsGÇ¥, or at least relatively good news and that your motherGÇÖs sufferings have not increased and that you yourself are feeling better. I was glad to hear that GraceGÇÖs confinement was safely over and that your mother had borne the anxiety so well. I am so sorry to have written you so little, but we have travelled so fast and there has been so much to see with not too much energy to see it and ill luck has pursued me about writing. Think of Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Vienna and Buda-Pesth, Poland and Russia all within a little more than 2 months! Do you by chance expect me to have any clear ideas? We were in Moscow for Easter and I missed it all, being in bed with a cold (and confidentially a back) and of St. Petersburg I also saw very little. Only 3 times could we go to the Hermitage and then for only an hour or two, as owing to the Easter holidays it was opened only Monday morning and Tuesday at 1:30 we left. However many of the pictures I can never forget and it is a great deal to have had even a glimpse of them. I have seen just enough to make me restless until I can get back to really see them and make them my own, I am afraid. My unsatisfactoriness as a letter written will so make less difference as I hope to sail on June 16th, and on getting back I hope to make up for lost time about the School too. I hope you have been able to make some arrangement about the extra rooms next door for next year, but failing that, there seems to me to be nothing to do but limit the number to the 85 that we can properly accommodate. After all, it doesnGÇÖt matter much for one year, in the long run, does it? I am writing in bed, as I am under the weather and feel badly after the long journey of 40 odd hours from St. Petersburg, so you must take an apology for a letter, as I was unwilling to let another mail go without a line. My letter no matter how short can at least carry my loving thoughts. Please write me soon, as otherwise I should miss it, and I hope you can tell me you are much better. WonGÇÖt you remember me most kindly to your mother! Lovingly yours, Mary E.G.
