I'll send it in by Jerry.

He has got friends to dinner with him, you see." Ellinor yielded.

She sat, resting her weary head on her hand, and wondering what were the questions which would have come so readily to her tongue could she have been face to face with him.

As it was, she only wrote this: "How early can I see you to-morrow morning?
Will you take all the necessary steps for my going to Dixon as soon as possible?
Could I be admitted to him to-night ?" The pencilled answers were: "Eight o'clock.

Yes.