Return to Florence—Rupture and Reconciliation—The British
Minister—English Lady’s-maid—Milord’s Imprisonment—My
Flight—Presents and Promises—My Father’s Avowal—My Behaviour
Towards Him—His Obliquity.
My husband soon wearied of the country and wanted to return to Florence.
There he hired a fine house, big enough to hold us all; the first storey
was to belong to him, his son and me; my parents occupied the second.
We were to be independent of each other, but Lord Newborough was still
responsible for the expenses of the double household.
Although forty-five years old, my mother was then _enceinte_, and gave
birth to a fifth boy, who was named Thomas, after milord, his godfather.
[Illustration: LORD NEWBOROUGH