Miss C.persists in feeling the deepest interest in Mr.Blake, and pledges herself, on the first occasion when sickness may lay him low, to offer him the use of her Extracts for the second time.

In the meanwhile she would be glad to know, before beginning the final chapters of her narrative, whether she may be permitted to make her humble contribution complete, by availing herself of the light which later discoveries have thrown on the mystery of the Moonstone." (4.) "Mr.Franklin Blake is sorry to disappoint Miss Clack.

He can only repeat the instructions which he had the honour of giving her when she began her narrative.

She is requested to limit herself to her own individual experience of persons and events, as recorded in her diary.
Later discoveries she will be good enough to leave to the pens of those persons who can write in the capacity of actual witnesses." (5.) "Miss Clack is extremely sorry to trouble Mr.Franklin Blake with another letter.

Her Extracts have been returned, and the expression of her matured views on the subject of the Moonstone has been forbidden.
Miss Clack is painfully conscious that she ought (in the worldly phrase) to feel herself put down.