Whose writing could that be?
She certainly knew it; it was a singular hand, stiff, awkward, untrained.

Why, it was the writing of Emma's sister, Kate, Mrs.Clay.Not a doubt of it.

Alice had received a note from Mrs.
Clay at the time of Jane Vine's death, and remembered comparing the hand with her own and blessing herself that at all events she wrote with an elegant slope, and not in that hideous upright scrawl.

The post-mark?
Yes, it was London, E.C.But if Kate addressed a letter to Mrs.Mutimer it must be with sinister design, a design not at all difficult to imagine.

Alice had a temptation.