It would have been perfectly easy to have thanked you courteously, whatever private opinion I may have entertained concerning a matter about which there may be more than my own opinion.
"And now, please believe that I will never again voluntarily cause you and your family the slightest uneasiness or inconvenience; and believe me, too, if you care to.

Very gratefully yours, "VALERIE WEST." She directed and sealed the letter, then drew toward her another sheet of paper: "DEAREST: I could die of shame for having blundered into your family circle.

I dare not even consider what they must think of me now.

_You_ will know how innocently and unsuspiciously it was done--how utterly impossible it would have been for me to have voluntarily committed such an act even in the last extremity.

But what _they_ will think of my appearance at your door last night, I don't know and I dare not surmise.
I have done all I could; I have rid them of me, and I have written to your sister to thank her and your family for their very real kindness to the last woman in the world whom they would have willingly chosen to receive and entertain.
"Dear, I didn't know I had nerves; but this experience seems to have developed them.