[22 June 1846]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.

              Monday evening. 

Well-I did look everywhere for you today,-but not more than I always do-always I do, when I go out, look for you in the streets .. round the corners!- And Mrs Jameson came alone & she & I were alone at Mr Rogers’s, & you must help me to thank her some day for her unspeakable kindness to me, though she did not leap to the height of the inspiration of managing to let us see those pictures together. Ah-if she had, it would have been too much- As it is, she gave me a great deal of pleasure in the kindest of ways .. & I let it be pleasure, by mixing it with enough thoughts of you .. (otherwise how could it be pleasure?)-& she showed the pictures, & instructed me, really taking pains & instructing me .. & telling me how Rubens painted landscapes .. as how should my ignorance guess? .. & various other unknown things. The