I wait all day in the state apartments where I have lived for nine days for something to happen but nothing does. I am left alone after a night of tossing and turning in bed with Guildford moaning feebly or waking himself and disturbing me. He joins me for breakfast but then wanders off, I know not where.
I walk in the gardens undisturbed, sunlight glistening on tree, flower and bough, the first time I have emerged out of doors since I arrived here. I call for Mrs. Ellen and she comes swiftly, as though she has been sitting waiting on my summons. She brushes my hair and when she stops I ask her to begin again. I say to her that I don"t know how long we will be here or where we go when we leave and I notice that she hastily brushes a tear from her eye and looks away from me briefly, shield
