"You didn't talk to him?"
"Oh, yes, I did!"
"What did he ask you?"
"Everything, nearly. He wanted to see the Abolitionist letters I had quoted."
"What did you say?"
"I refused. I told him they were sacred."
"Did he suspect them? Was that his idea?"
"Oh, dear, no! he wanted to reproduce some of the signatures. Then he asked me about my novels."
"What about them?"
"How I used to write them—if the characters were taken from life. I said every time."