He remembered the look of the one he wanted and picked it out instantly.
"There it is, sir," he said, and held out to his father those two important lines, still unread.

Mr.Leigh looked at the paper and then at Maurice.
"I never saw it," he replied.

"How could I have missed it ?" "Heaven knows! It is plain enough.

And my note, which came in the letter before that; it was never answered.

_That_ may have miscarried too ?" "There was no note, Maurice, my dear boy; there was no note.