The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that blotting-paper has been used.

If it had been written straight off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade.

This man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not familiar with it.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

Let us now see the letter.