If you had been ill, for instance, I should have brought you your correspondence across to the hotel, but I should not have delivered it to your own secretary.

That, as I say, is our invariable rule, and we find that it has saved many of our clients from inconvenience.

In your case," the manager concluded impressively, "your communications being, in a sense, official, any such attempt as has been made would not stand the slightest chance of success.

We should be even more particular than in any ordinary case to see that by no possible chance could any correspondence addressed to you, fall into other hands." Hunterleys began to recover himself a little.

He drew towards himself the heap of letters which the manager had laid by his side.
"Please make yourself quite comfortable here," the latter begged.