If the telling were necessary it would be able to come later on.
"May I ask what brought you to Paris, Miss Kitwater ?" I inquired, after a pause.
"My great fear," she answered.

"I wired to you from Charing Cross to say that I was coming.

Did you not receive my message ?" I remember the fact that, not having time to open them all before I was called away, I had put some of the telegrams on one side.

As ill luck would have it, Miss Kitwater's must have been amongst these.

I explained that I had been away from the house all day, and only that moment returned.
"I felt," she said, ignoring my excuses, "that I must come to you and tell you all that has transpired.