It may be simply that she wrote in a hurry with her gloves on." "It may have been written some time ago," said Mr.Ricardo, encouraged by his success to another suggestion.
"No; that is the one thing it could not have been," said Hanaud.

"Look round the room.

Was there ever a room better tended?
Find me a little pile of dust in any one corner if you can! It is all as clean as a plate.

Every morning, except this one morning, this room has been swept and polished.

The paper was written and torn up yesterday." He enclosed the card in an envelope as he spoke, and placed it in his pocket.