“My dear Patmore,—I fear I may have kept you at home, and inconvenienced you; but I am beset with work. I had arranged all my ‘Examiner’ matters, so that six o’clock was to have seen me released, but ——’s absence has put me out, and I cannot possibly stir from the paper. I have now, at five o’clock, very much to do. On Monday, at half-past seven, without fail, expect me, unless forbidden by your own hand in the interim. Any night but Wednesday will suit me; only I name the first of the week.
