Barrymore said that he had.
"Did the boy deliver it into your own hands ?" asked Sir Henry.
Barrymore looked surprised, and considered for a little time.
"No," said he, "I was in the box-room at the time, and my wife brought it up to me." "Did you answer it yourself ?" "No; I told my wife what to answer and she went down to write it." In the evening he recurred to the subject of his own accord.
"I could not quite understand the object of your questions this morning, Sir Henry," said he.

"I trust that they do not mean that I have done anything to forfeit your confidence ?" Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived.
Mrs.Barrymore is of interest to me.

She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical.

You could hardly conceive a less emotional subject.

Yet I have told you how, on the first night here, I heard her sobbing bitterly, and since then I have more than once observed traces of tears upon her face.