Lady Victoria Campbell

CHAPTER XI
" REST AND BE THANKFUL "
" My half-day's work is done,
And this is all my part ;
I give a patient God
My patient heart."
From Diary.
Jan. 6th, 1900. Tiree.
Doctor and inspector. Clearing up. Good
carving-class. Week closes on better news from
South Africa. Anxious about father.
The anxiety deepened through the following weeks,
and soon it was clear that there was to be no return
of the wonderful vitality which had sustained the
strength of the Duke.
On March 24th Lady Victoria reached Inveraray,
and in another month, as she notes in " the time of
the singing of birds," the end had come.
From that hour the ties which bound her to home,
and to the work among " His people," were loosened.
Later on, she writes from Campbeltown to Lady
Mary Glyn : " I cannot bear to think of that beautiful
harbour without Him. But all places live anew to one,
in another sense, if one has human interests there."
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