in a new country. Writing home to his mother from Louisbourg
about this new country, that is, before Canada had become
British, before there was much more than a single million
of English-speaking people in the whole New World, and
before most people on either side of the Atlantic understood
what a great oversea empire meant at all, he said: 'This
will sometime hence, be a vast empire, the seat of power
and learning. Nature has refused them nothing, and there
will grow a people out of our little spot, England, that
will fill this vast space, and divide this great portion
of the globe with the Spaniards, who are possessed of
the other half of it.'

On arriving in England Wolfe had reported his presence
to the commander-in-chief, Lord Ligonier, requesting
leave of absence in order that he might visit his relatives.
This was granted, and the Wolfe family met together once
more and for the last time.

Though he said little about it, Wolfe must have snatched
some time for Katherine Lowther, his second love, to whom
he was now engaged. What had happened between him and
his first love, Miss Lawson, will probably never be known.
We know that his parents were opposed to his marrying
her. Perhaps, too, she may not have been as much in love
as he was. But, for whatever reason, they parted. Then
he fell in love with beautiful Katherine Lowther, a sister
to the Earl of Lonsdale and afterwards Duchess of Bolton.

Meanwhile Pitt was planning for his Empire Year of 1759,