He could see that it contained more than one sheet.

When at length he opened it, he read this:-- "DEAR MR.

WAYMARK,--I have an hour of freedom this Sunday afternoon, and I will spend it in replying as well as I can to your very interesting letter.

My life is, as you say, very quiet and commonplace compared with that you find yourself suddenly entering upon.

I have no such strange and moving things to write about, but I will tell you in the first place how I live and what I do, then put down some of the thoughts your letter has excited in me.
"The family I am with consists of very worthy but commonplace people.
They treat me with more consideration than I imagine governesses usually get, and I am grateful to them for this, but their conversation, especially that of Mrs.Epping, I find rather wearisome.
It deals with very trivial concerns of everyday life, in which I vainly endeavour to interest myself.
"Then there is the religious formalism of the Eppings and their friends.