You can write another when the time comes to dispatch it." But Ostermore was never one to take sensible advice.

"Pooh! 'Twill be safe in here.

'Tis a secret known to none." He dropped it, together with King James' letter, back into the recess, snapped down the trap, and replaced the drawer.

Whereupon Mr.Caryll took his leave, promising to advise his lordship of whatever he might glean, and so departed from Stretton House.
My Lord Rotherby, meanwhile, was very diligent in the business upon which he was intent.

He had received in his interview with Hortensia an added spur to such action as might be scatheful to Mr.Caryll.