She thanks Heaven he has so good a friend.

Mrs.Hudson says that this is too short a letter, but I can say nothing more.
Yours most respectfully, Mary Garland.
It is a question whether the reader will know why, but this letter gave Rowland extraordinary pleasure.

He liked its very brevity and meagreness, and there seemed to him an exquisite modesty in its saying nothing from the young girl herself.

He delighted in the formal address and conclusion; they pleased him as he had been pleased by an angular gesture in some expressive girlish figure in an early painting.

The letter renewed that impression of strong feeling combined with an almost rigid simplicity, which Roderick's betrothed had personally given him.