Lady Victoria Campbell

326 "REST AND BE THANKFUL"
her rule. She was always convinced that her view of a
situation must be the right one. Due largely from the
integrity of her purpose, which had no other aim in
view, save the good of those whose walk in life she
wished to stimulate and direct.
Iona. Sep. 21st, 1906.
My dearest Mary,
It is strange and nice the way in which the
Hielan' Mary's Birthday, always (of late years) in
the autumn manoeuvres,, finds me in a place in
which there is an ineffable peace, and so do I
feel it.
Another of these glorious days, which have come
to bless us after a pre-equinoctial period in Bunes-
san. One has an increasing joy in the beauty of
it all.
It has been a strenuous time there with nursing,
clothing clubs, etc., so that when we literally
glided across yesterday evening from Fionphort
(where I had put in three nights) as in a gondola,
it seemed like Heaven ! I had leisure to think of
my kith and kin, and toddled with my German maid
to the fast-disappearing stock of Miss Muir, at the
end of our Columba garden, to seize upon two
little articles I don't think you have seen yet.
The Harvest is a good fortnight behind, and the
Islanders are all working frantically.
McPhail out in an expedition with nearly every
child for a picnic on Kintra, so I had a kind of
royal private landing, with Archie MacArthur