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10 July 1887 — Lille | |
Sunday. 10th July [1887]. Got up at 7 & walked to the station & left by 10.25 train. Got to Calais at 12.30. lunched there & went on board the “Foam.” Very bad passage of 2 hours. Happily we had a private cabin & the 2 girls & I lay down. A poor gentleman had a serious fall down the companion ladder of the ladies cabin—cut his head & was not sensible when we got to Dover. Got tea & revived a little & had a compartment to ourselves. Arrived at Charing Cross more than 1 hour later. Maria & Richard met their girls & took them home. Henry & I went to 1 Queen Anne St. Had tea & read our letters. Suddenly the door opened & Maria came in. On my asking what was the matter she said she had come to say there were very sad news of Susan Hambro. I guessed at once she must be dead—& so it was. She died at 3 Savile Row yesterday, Monty having lent the Hambros his rooms there. I was much shocked—altho’ knowing how ill Susan had been for the last years– It seems she was taken ill Thursday with peritonitis but no one seemed alarmed & was supposed to be sleeping when her husband went to see her & found her dying. I can hardy realise it yet. We had been friends since I was 16– She was a young & most lovely woman just married when I first knew her & she was very kind to the awkward, ugly, heavy girl I was then—& I never have had any other friend like her. Henry & I dined with Blanche & Edward at No 15. | |
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