"I found one letter waiting for me that was most important."
"Yes?" said Claudia, with polite but obviously fatigued interest.
"It was from Miss Bernard."
"Fancy not having her letters sent on!"
"You know what was in that letter, Lady Claudia?"
"Oh, yes; Rickmansworth told me. I don't know if he ought to have. I am so very sorry, Mr. Lane."
"From not getting the letter, I didn't know for a month that I was free. I needn't shrink from calling it freedom."
"As you were in America, it couldn't make much difference whether you knew or not."
"I want you to know that I didn't know."
"Really you are very kind."