I've just had a letter from a friend of mine whose brother is in business in Moscow.

They want me to stay with them, and as they're in the thick of all the conspiracies and anarchists, I've a good mind to stop on my way home.

It sounds too thrilling." She wanted to make Rachel see how thrilling it was.

"My friend knows a girl of fifteen who's been sent to Siberia for life merely because they caught her addressing a letter to an anarchist.

And the letter wasn't from her, either.