"Did I tell you that I had a very kind letter from his widow ?" "I haven't seen you since." "Ah, no, to be sure.

I wrote, or rather I left a card at the town house.

Charming letter in reply.

The poor lady is still quite young.
She was a Thompson of Derbyshire.

I never knew the family at all well." Gammon mused, and it occurred to him in his knowledge of the world that Greenacre's connexion with the house of Bolsover might be that of a begging-letter writer.