I wrote a month ago.

A week before you did." "I might have known you would do some folly," said Colonel Bellairs with contempt.

"I am glad this did not come to my ears earlier, or I should have been very angry.

It was most unsuitable, most undignified, that you and I should both write.

But," it was evidently impossible for him to be seriously annoyed by anything on this particular afternoon, "all's well that ends well.