Thank you, that really does mean a great deal to me. I appreciate your kindness more than I can say. I'll tell him, so that in the event it should be needed, he'll know to write to you directly, and not make any sort of public fuss.
I hope that nothing untoward will happen, certainly, but I also hope you won't take it as a slight upon your company if I say that I would not mind it at all if I could now return to my wife and children. I have never been away this long, not since before I was married.