Indeed. And I'm sure that was more than you really wished to know. For what it's worth, I do not believe my Mother's health merits such dramatics.

I do apologise for her performance at Kensington. Apparently I was wrong to think it had nothing to do with Hooper's appearance, though, and this may entertain you: she informed me this afternoon that when he staggered into view, she was seized with the notion that he was a Dogstar assassin come to murder me. As though that pathetic lump could have been any threat at all.