The needlework as perfect, of course; he hardly glanced at it, even when he had opened and read the letter.

This was of the same decorous nature as the first.

Polly returned a piece of stuff that had remained over.

He had really sent material enough for two flags, she wrote; but she had not wished to keep him waiting so long.
And then, in a postscript: MR.

SMITH WAS HERE LAST SUNDAY.