"It is very important.

Do you know I've a letter from Peter ?" "From Peter! Why should _you_ have a letter from Peter ?" said the doctor, and his uninterested tone became alert.
"I'm sure I don't know why not.

I was always fond of Peter," said the canon, humbly.

"Will you cast your eye over it?
You see, it's written from Eton, and posted two days later in London." Dr.Blundell read the letter, which was written in a schoolboy hand, and not guiltless of mistakes in spelling.
"_DEAR CANON BIRCH_, "_As my father wouldn't hear of my going out to South Africa, I've taken the law into my own hands.

I wrote to my mother's cousin, Lord Ferries, to ask him to include me in his yeomanry corps.