One or two critics said the situation is impossible, because no man would carry a letter unopened for a long number of years.

My reply is: that it is exactly what I myself did.

I have still a letter written to me which was delivered at my door sixteen years ago.

I have never read it, and my reason for not reading it was that I realised, as I think, what its contents were.

I knew that the letter would annoy, and there it lies.