CHAPTER IV.
TWO LETTERS.
Northbury was so completely out of the world that it only had a postal delivery twice a day.

The early post was delivered at eight o'clock, so that the good people of the place could discuss their little items of outside news over their breakfast-tables.

The postman went round with his evening delivery at seven.

He was not overwhelmed by the aristocracy of Rosendale Manor, and, notwithstanding Mrs.Bertram's open annoyance, insisted on calling there last.

He said it suited him best to do so, and what suited Sammy Benjafield he was just as determined to do, as Mrs.
Bertram was to carry out her own schemes.
Consequently, the evening letters never reached the Manor until between eight and half-past.