Lady Victoria Campbell

"REST AND BE THANKFUL" 315
We halted at Iona one night. The " Cottage
Nurse " there in addition to the Queen's, as well as
here, a great success. On Friday last, I am happy
to say, Mr. Allan, at Tobermory, was beaten,
seventeen to six, in an attempt to foist them on
two of our districts, instead of the all-round
trained ones.
I believe Eustace accuses us of never ending a
letter without descriptions of a sunset ! I must
begin with the morning on the mountains. Such
a beautiful little smack with brown sails, just with
its snail-pace making for the shore ; and I knew
the wife was looking so anxiously to see it would be
all right in a fast-approaching thunderstorm. It
seemed to " go over us," in answer to an unspoken
prayer, as I hurried, escorted by this redoubtable
woman, past a bull, and with thunder rolling.
I said : " Ahem ! these storms not so bad for ships,
as the wind ones." Here, then, she is, at 7 a.m.,
trying to make for the cottage below me on a
painted ocean. If ever the words, " As the moun-
tains are round about Jerusalem," lived for one,
it is in this glorious plateau of an Island.
I meant to have written to Ralph when I heard
of his success, from Tiree. I never had a more
crowded five weeks. I feel such a longing, as
members of the family have taken to Island life,
that our own should suffice. I feel such a (holy ?)
jealousy over it all !
I can say it because it is in the departments,
especially where we can say, " Because I am one