"Aren't you going to open it ?" The captain had found a seat by the window and the child was telling him everything she had done since she last saw him.
"Oh, yes, in a minute," replied Lucy.

"There's plenty of time." With this she picked up the bunch of letters, ran her eye through the collection, and then, with the greatest deliberation, broke one seal after another, tossing the contents on the table.

Some she merely glanced at, searching for the signatures and ignoring the contents; others she read through to the end.

One was from Dresden, from a student she had known there the year before.

This was sealed with a wafer and bore the address of the cafe where he took his meals.