Now will you think for one moment, and see whether you can tell me the exact day on which that letter arrived ?" She considered for a few moments before she answered.
"I believe I can, if you will give me time to turn it over in my mind," she said.

"My husband was at home that morning, and Willie, that's my little boy, was very much upset because I would not let him stay away from school to help his father in the garden.

Yes, sir, I can tell you the exact date.

It was on a Monday, and the third of June." I thanked her for the information she had given me, and then went off to see what use it was likely to prove to me.

The letter from Italy had been delivered in Brisbane on the third of June.