Far more was he impressed by her omitting to answer the two important questions he had put to her.

First, concerning her uncle's attitude towards them, and his conduct in giving such strange information to the reporter.

Second, on his, Somerset's, paying her a flying visit some time during the spring.

Since she had requested it, he made no haste in his reply.

When penned, it ran in the words subjoined, which, in common with every line of their correspondence, acquired from the strangeness of subsequent circumstances an interest and a force that perhaps they did not intrinsically possess.
'People cannot' (he wrote) 'be for ever in good spirits on this gloomy side of the Channel, even though you seem to be so on yours.