"Dear Mr.David," it began, "I get your news continually by my cousin, Miss Grant, and it is a pleisand hearing.

I am very well, in a good place, among good folk, but necessitated to be quite private, though I am hoping that at long last we may meet again.

All your friendships have been told me by my loving cousin, who loves us both.

She bids me to send you this writing, and oversees the same.

I will be asking you to do all her commands, and rest your affectionate friend, Catriona Macgregor-Drummond.