"Absolutely fit. Home June." Such was the cablegram which Lady Shackleton received on March 26th, 1909, announcing the safety of her husband, Sir Ernest Shackleton, the hero of the famous dash to the South Pole. For twelve months she had anxiously awaited news, and yet she frankly confesses that the night she knew that her husband was absolutely safe was the only night she was totally unable to sleep. A rather tall, fair woman, with a delicate complexion, it is difficult to credit Lady Shackleton with the strong nerves which she must possess. She was Miss Dorman before she married the explorer in 1903, and is the happy mother of two children, Raymond and Cecily, the former being born in 1905, and Cecily two years later. Since her husband's return, they have made their home at Sydenham, but formerly lived in Edinburgh. It was in a dainty house on the western border of that city that Lady Shackleton spent the anxious days while her husband was searching for the South Pole. A thoroughly homely, domesticated woman, Lady Shackleton devotes her whole time and attention to her home, husband, and children, and tells with considerable amusement how Raymond once remarked to her: "Mother, I am a hero like father, for I fell off my chair and didn't cry a bit."

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