Miss Layton does not indulge in details, but that is the impression I gather from her letters." Hume paused, and Brett shot a quick glance at him.
"Finish what you were going to say," he said.
"Only this--Helen and I have mutually released each other from our engagement, and in the same breath have refused to be released.

That is, if you understand--" The barrister nodded.
"The result is that we are both thoroughly miserable.

Our respective fathers do not like the idea of our marriage under the circumstances.

We are simply drifting in the feeble hope that some day a kindly Providence will dissipate the cloud that hangs over me.

Ah, Mr.Brett, I am a rich man.