I am counting the weeks till Peg swims into view again--so delightful will it be to have her near and easily to commune with her, and above all to get from her all that detail of the state of the case about you all that I so constantly yearn for and that only talk can give. The one shade on the picture is my fear that she will find the poor old Uncle much more handicapped about _socially_ ministering to them (two young women with large social appetites) than she is perhaps prepared to find me. And yet after all she probably does take in that I have had to cut my connections with society entirely. Complications and efforts with people floor me, anginally, _on the spot_, and my state is that of living every hour and at every minute on my guard. So I am anything but the centre of an attractive circle--I am cut down to the barest inevitabilities, and occupied really more than in any other way now in simply saving my life. However, the blest child was witness of my condition last summer, my letters have probably sufficiently reflected it since--and I am really on a _better_ plane than when she was last with me. To have her with me is a true support and joy, and I somehow feel that with her admirable capacity to be interested in the near and the characteristic, whatever these may be, she will have lots of pleasant and informing experience and contact in spite of my inability to "take her out" or to entertain company for her at home. She knows this and she comes in all her indulgence and charity and generosity--for the sake of the sweet good she can herself do _me_. And I rejoice that she has Margaret P. with her--who will help and solidify and enrich the whole scene. No. 3 will be all satisfactorily ready for them, and I have no real fear but that they will find it a true bower of ease. The omens and auspices seem to me all of the best.
The political atmosphere here is charged to explosion as it has never been--what is to happen no man knows; but this only makes it a more thrilling and spectacular world. The tension has never been so great--but it will, for the time at least, ease down. The dread of violence is shared all round. I am finishing this rather tiredly by night--I couldn't get it off and have alas missed a post. But all love.