Every day you corresponded with each other.

Before school time the girl dictated his lessons to her young brother, beginning with the usual scholastic flowers of rhetoric but ending in the passionate voice of love, and after school was over, you, in your turn dictated a similar lesson for the lad to carry back with him.

Naturally, _this_ lesson book he _never_ took to school with him; you kept the other here, the genuine one which he had to show to his masters.

And this ingenious smuggling was carried on beneath the very eyes of the family without their perceiving it.

Yet at last it _was_ discovered.