It ran as follows:-- "MY DEAR FRIEND, MR.

DOVE,--I always and always will be most true to you.

I would not be such a wicked little girl as to break my word for anything I'm going always to keep it, and tortures, even the Inquisition, and even the rack, wouldn't get it out of me.

Did you ever hear of the rack, Mr.Dove?
but perhaps you had better not know.
Yes, I'll always keep my word, the word that I promised, and no one shall ever know about you and me and the sticky sweetmeats; but I won't keep the word that I didn't promise.

You remember how you wanted me to give you another word that I'd always stay here, and keep Primrose and Jasmine here, instead of letting them go and going with them to the Palace Beautiful.