His pen could scarcely keep up with the flow of his thoughts.

"I have done wrong in making you promise to keep our marriage a secret," he wrote, "and I repent bitterly of my thoughtlessness.

Many things might happen which would make it absolutely necessary that you should disclose it.

For instance, your uncle might die; what would then become of you?
Certainly you would have your good old Uncle John to fall back upon, and he is a host in himself.

If any circumstances should arise which would make it desirable for you to do so, remember, dearest, it is my express wish that you should make known to all the world that you are Valmai Wynne, the beloved wife of Caradoc Wynne." Page after page was written with the lavish fervour of a first love-letter, very interesting to the writer no doubt, but which we will leave to the privacy of the envelope which Cardo addressed and sealed with such care.