You would never get to see her.

We none of us know the rights, but there's something up.

Sorry to say it, Sir Charles, but we have strict orders not to admit you.

Haven't you the admiral's letter, sir ?" "No; what letter ?" "He has been after you, sir; and when he came back he sent Roger off to your house with a letter." A cold chill began to run down Sir Charles Bassett.

He hailed a passing hansom, and drove to his own house to get the admiral's letter; and as he went he asked himself, with chill misgivings, what on earth had happened.
What had happened shall be told the reader precisely but briefly..
In the first place, Bella had opened the anonymous letter and read its contents, to which the reader is referred.
There are people who pretend to despise anonymous letters.