Perhaps you might enlighten me as to the nature of this new assistance that the others find to ward me off, as the old ward off death with possets and lace. At least it is only the future that concerns them, and not the past. You and Jude seem preoccupied with life Before, as if it is some Thing that can be forced to return.
What demonstration of good will is this? Weapons and approaches just before dawn? I would find a quieter flock with thicker wool to protect against the night and the wolves.
I do hate the noise and the lights here--I recall being more fond of girls dancing in gaslight than the eternal blue glare. Expect things may be better in the north, but there are never so many lost lambs.
Do not have a great deal of time to write, though you should send me the news of the quaint countryside.