"Very well!" Mrs.Russell had then said, "It will be better from you; it will look more like unwarranted interference from me; but I will write, and you shall send an accompanying line.

Let me have it to-morrow." The next morning Mrs.Surrey was not well enough to drive out, and thus sent her note by a servant, enclosing with it the letter of June 27th,--thinking that her sister might want it for reference.

When it reached Mrs.Russell, it was almost mail-time, and with the simple thought, "So,--Laura has written it, after all," she enclosed it in her own, and sent it off, post-haste; not even looking at the unsealed envelope, as Mrs.Surrey had taken for granted she would, and thus failing to know of its double contents.
Thus the very letter which they would have compassed land and sea to have prevented coming under his eyes, unwisely yet most fortunately kept in existence, was sent by themselves to his hands.
Without pausing to read a line of that which his aunt had written him, he tore it into fragments, flung it into the empty grate; and, bounding down the stairs and on to the street, plunged into a carriage and was whirled away, all too slowly, to the home he had left but a little space before with such widely, such painfully different emotions..