"Tell me now." "Ronnie, do you remember that in that letter I said I had something to tell you, and that I enclosed a note, written some weeks before, telling you this thing ?" "Yes, dear," said Ronnie.

"But you forgot to enclose the note.

It was not there.

I tore the envelope right open; I hunted high and low.

Then we concluded you had after all considered it unimportant." "It was all-important, Ronnie; and it _was_ there." "It was--_where_ ?" asked Ronnie.
"Under Aubrey's foot....