Then she spoke from her new habitation nine hundred miles away, in these meagre words:-- 'Are settled at the address given.

Can now attend to any inquiry about the building.' The pointed implication that she could attend to inquiries about nothing else, breathed of the veritable Paula so distinctly that he could forgive its sauciness.

His reply was soon despatched:-- 'Will write particulars of our progress.

Always the same.' The last three words formed the sentimental appendage which she had assured him she could tolerate, and which he hoped she might desire.
He spent the remainder of the day in making a little sketch to show what had been done in the castle since her departure.

This he despatched with a letter of explanation ending in a paragraph of a different tenor:-- 'I have demonstrated our progress as well as I could; but another subject has been in my mind, even whilst writing the former.