MS Mrs Clare Roels
My dear Christabel
The Packet will be happy to take Cherry cut down when Heriot’s Choice is over. I am afraid it will last a long time – for I never can succeed in getting in two chapters of Heriot’s Choice- Our pupil teachers have had a paper sent in from Salisbury training college for religious examination, saying 2nd class – Alice Misselbrook 8, Harriet Godwin 18, but whether this means no from the top or number of marks we in our inexperience do not know. The mistress has been nursing her sick husband at Portsmouth for a fortnight, and they have kept school by themselves with good success – the children have all been wonderfully good. I believe the poor man is dying, but he is in Haslar Hospital and Mrs Bishop has come back to be sent for any time.1 The new master promises well. I hope your parish troubles will prove to be an eruption throwing off ill blood. How often a worry comes after one has had a special pleasure
your affectionate
C M Yonge