As for his wife--nothing would induce her to see Mrs.Piper.Neither did she wish Piper to come down to Beechfield.

She was particularly anxious that the man should not learn of Godfrey Radmore's return to England.
Unfortunately Radmore was on the lookout for a good manservant.
She took up the other letter.

It was a nice, prosperous-looking, well addressed envelope, very different from the other.

Perhaps this second letter would contain something that would cheer her up.

But alas! when she opened it, she found it was from Mrs.Winter, Piper's late employer's wife.
Poor Enid Crofton! As she stood there reading it, she turned a little sick.