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Yet, on reflection, he dismissed apprehension, Ailsa was too fine a character to permit any change in her manner to humiliate Letty even if, by hazard, knowledge of the unhappy past had come to her concerning the pretty, pallid nurse of Sainte Ursula.
As for Arthur Wye and Billy Cortlandt, they were incapable of anything contemptible or malicious.
He asked Celia for a pencil and paper, and, propped on his pillows, he wrote: "My darling, I don't exactly understand your message, but I guess it's all right.

To answer it: "Billy Cortlandt and Arthur Wye are old New York friends of mine.
Their words are better than other people's bonds.

Letty Lynden is a sweet, charming girl.

I regret that I have not known her years longer than I have.