Summary: feet only above the ground. Then a wooden roof is put on, not touching the walls, with small vents left on ail sides. The whole is made perfectly watertight; with all the chinks filled in with mud. Here we now live, really vastly better off than in an uncomfortable tent during the hot weather.... To be sure it is dark; and one promenades Corridors hearing one's feet echo; but one can keep cool. . . !’ These underground dwellings turned out to be a ‘perfect boon’ during the hot months, completely shielding them from the intense heat above. She even joked about growing fungi on her walls ; and found them to be ‘perfectly dry even in the heaviest rain.’ ‘That,’ she concluded, ‘is the ‘_sort of improvement that might well be adopted in England. But here “ Home Rule,’ to make mere sense of and comfort in your dwelling, is perfectly vain,” There she sat, an amusing note in her voice, bearing her enforced exile with fortitude, finding humor and practicality in the most unexpected of circumstances.