Gradually they were led on to perceive that this simple-minded man had understood their recent talk of Besworth to signify a consent to the stipulation he had previously mentioned to Adela.

"Perfect simplicity is as deceiving as the depth of cunning," Adela despairingly wrote, much to Wilfrid's amusement.
A third letter followed.

It was of another tenor, and ran thus, in Adela's handwriting: "My Darling Wilfrid, "We have always known that some peculiar assistance would never be wanting in our extremity--aid, or comfort, or whatever you please to call it.

At all events, something to show we are not neglected.

That old notion of ours must be true.