After reading them, I feel that I have absolutely no right to stand between you and the man of your real choice.

It would not be kind or wise of me to do so.

I release you at once, and consider myself released.

You may therefore regard our engagement as irrevocably cancelled.
"Faithfully yours, "CECIL HOLSWORTHY." "Nothing more than that ?" he asked, looking up and biting his pen.

"Not a word of regret or apology ?" "Not a word," I answered.