"Your thoughtful brother brought it to me.

You had told him all the dear womanly things you had said or were going to say to your husband, and he passed them on to me with the letter." "Never mind what he said to you, Shiel.

It was what I said that mattered." She was getting bolder every minute.

The comedy was playing into her hands.
"You wrote in your letter the things he said to me," he replied.
Her protest sounded indignantly real.

"I said nothing in the letter I wrote you that any man would not wish to hear.