They don't at all seek people of note as their correspondents.

Free communication with all the world is their motto, and Rowland Hill is the god they worship.
Only they have been forced to guard themselves against too great an accession of paper and ink.

Are you fond of writing letters, Miss Vavasor ?" "Yes, to my friends; but I like getting them better." "I shrewdly suspect they don't read half what they get.

Is it possible any one should go through two sheets of paper filled by our friend the Duchess there?
No; their delight is in writing.

They sit each at her desk after breakfast, and go on till lunch.