and he would let me hear.

And I left it and, oh, Margaret, I heard within a week, and he said such lovely things about it.

You know I always go to the post-office, so there was no chance of anybody's finding it out that way.

And then the proof began to come and I was at my wits' end to conceal that, but I did.

And then the book was published, and, Margaret, you know the rest.