But our poor friend was--well, weak-minded, so how could she be competent to make a binding will ?" "My dear sir, her will was made within a month of her husband's death, when she was as sane as you are, as I have plenty of letters to show.
Only, as I have said, she kept the contents a dead secret, in order that one day they might be a pleasant surprise to you." "Well," I answered, "all things considered, they have been a pleasant surprise; I may say a _very_ pleasant surprise.

And now let us go and have some dinner at the club.

I feel tired and thirsty." Next morning the letter that I had posted from London to the chairman of my committee was, at my request, returned to me unopened..