Since the day he died, the most faithful search has been made; there is not a corner of his office, of his library, of his room, that I have not hunted through.

He was so methodical in business matters, so exact in the care of his papers, that I had little hope, after I had gone through his desk.

I cannot understand it.

It is altogether dark to me." "What can have made him change his mind about it, Richard?
Can he have heard anything about last summer ?" "Not from me, Sophie.

But I have sometimes thought he knew, from allusions that he has made to her mother's marriage, more than once this winter." "He was very angry about that, at the time, I suppose ?" "Yes, I imagine so.