"No wonder you were late.

What did she give you ?" "Nothing," replied Anne.

"It was a trick.

She never wrote the note, although the writing looks like hers, and so does the paper.

She was very indignant over it and sent me back in the carriage, telling the coachman to return for her, for of course she will be here to-night.
I would have arrived much later if I had been obliged to walk.