text:  Towards the close of my stay and as my indisposition wore away the Sainsburys complimented me by giving one or two dinner-parties and these with some morning visits and rambles with the men I met at the house served to draw my attention from the matter; so that by the time I had fairly embarked on board the _Blitzen_ bound for Helvoetsluys the circumstances which had occupied me so intently for the last fortnight were beginning to take their place among the remembrances of the past