I wrote them." "You!" "Didn't I tell you I was the secretary?
My department is the 'information bureau.' I do not see the actual letters.

There are always personal bits which father puts in himself." "Bits regarding boarding accommodation, etc. ?" She did not answer his smile, and her eyes grew hard as she nodded.
"Usually I can keep things from going that far.

I can't quite see how it happened so suddenly in your case." "I happen to be a sudden person." "Evidently.

Father was quite dumbfounded when he knew you had actually arrived.

He certainly expected an interval during which he could invent good and sufficient reasons for putting you off." "Such as ?" "Such as smallpox.