But he felt that it was not such a letter as Miss Mellerby would have written herself, and he was a little ashamed of all that was said about the priest.

Neither was he proud of the pretty, finished, French hand-writing, over every letter of which his love had taken so much pains.

In truth, Kate O'Hara was better educated than himself, and perhaps knew as much as Sophie Mellerby.

She could have written her letter quite as well in French as in English, and she did understand something of the formation of her sentences.

Fred Neville had been at an excellent school, but it may be doubted whether he could have explained his own written language.