Under these circumstances Lord and Lady
Rivers resolved to take Willy to Nice, where he
remained through the winter of 1855-56 with Lady
Rivers and her daughters, Fanny and Blanche.
Lord Rivers and Susan Pitt also went out with them,
but returned to England in January 1856.
At the same time Mr. Sidney Osborne offered
to take charge of Henry, and with his wife, a Miss
Grenfell by birth, they had the little boy for many
years in their family.
Lady Granville's granddaughters, Alice, Mary,
Margaret, Gertrude, and Constance, remained during
this winter with their governess. Miss Doggett,
under Lady Granville's care in her house in
Hereford Street.
During this time my grandmother kept up a
constant correspondence with Lady Rivers. In
November she paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Osborne at his living of Durweston near Blandford
in Dorsetshire.
