A PAIR OF BLUE
38
Four days
later
EYES.
an envelope, directed to
made
Miss Swancourt, in a strange hand, its
appearance from the post-bag. ^
0/
said
within her.
Elfride,
Can
'
it
her
sinking
heart
man
be from that
a lecture for impertinence?
And
actually
one for Mrs. Swancourt in the same handwriting
She feared
!'
to
open
how can he know my name ? somebody '
'
was
'
No
Yet it
is
else.'
Nonsense
You
hers.
!'
said
her
sent your initials,
available.
father
grimly.
and the Directory
Though he wouldn't have
taken the trouble to look there unless he
had been thoroughly savage with you.
I
thought you wrote with rather more
as-
perity than simple literary discussion
re-
quired.'
This timely clause was introduced
to save the character of the vicar's judg-
ment under any
issue of affairs.
^Well, here I go,' said Elfride, desperately tearing open the seal. '
To be
sure, of course,'
exclaimed Mrs.
