Her first two letters from Switzerland had been very pleasant; but after that there had seemed to have crept over her a melancholy which she unconsciously transferred to her words, and which he could not but taste in them,--at first unconsciously, also, but soon with so plain a flavour that he recognised it, and made it a matter of mental inquiry.

During the three or four last days of the journey, while they were at Basle and on their way home, she had not written.

But she did write on the day after her arrival, having then received from Mr Grey a letter, in which he told her how very much she would add to his happiness if she would now agree that their marriage should not be postponed beyond the end of October.

This letter she found in her room on her return, and this she answered at once.

And she answered it in such words that Mr Grey resolved that he would at once go to her in London.