"We have all been there." We paused a moment, while I puffed smoke at the photograph again.
"Well," I said at last, "her face looks to me really simple and nice.

It is a good face.

Do you see her often ?" "Oh, no; she's on tour." "In the provinces ?" "M'yes; just at present, at Scarborough." "But she writes to you ?" "Every day." "Would you think it an unpardonable impertinence if I made bold to ask whether it would be possible for you to show me a specimen of her letters ?" He unlocked a drawer and took out three or four.

Then he read one through, carefully.

"I don't think," he said, in a deliberative voice, "it would be a serious breach of confidence in me to let you look through this one.