CHAPTER IX

AN INTERLUDE (1852)

The turning-point. Patience and serenity: waiting for an opportunity. II. With her father at Umberslade--The water cure --Death of her Aunt Evans--Meeting with George Eliot and Mrs. Browning--Visits to Dublin and to Birk Hall (Sir James Clark). III. Literary "Works"--Converse with her "Aunt Mai"--A new religion for the artizans. IV. A little piece of diplomacy --Florence to be free at some future specified time. V. A last attempt to keep her at home 116