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It was, oddly enough, the first occasion, or nearly the first on which

Grace had ever received a love-letter fro

taken place under conditions which rendered letter-writing unnecessary

Its perusal, therefore, had a certain novelty for her She thought

that, upon the whole, he wrote love-letters very well But the chief

rational interest of the letter to the reflective Grace lay in the

chance that such a

her doubts at rest, one way or the other, on her actual share in

Winterborne's death The relief of consulting a skilled mind, the one

professional man who had seen Giles at that time, would be immense As

for that staterief, which

at the tiarded as her triumph, she was quite prepared to

ad herself

as she did when she made it, she had done what to her was a far ed Winterborne'sher father, or any one in the house or out of it,

Grace replied to the letter She agreed to meet Fitzpiers on two

conditions, of which the first was that the place ofshould be

the top of Rubdown Hill, the second that he would not object to Marty