"The two most recent?"
"Yes, they bear dates, you will observe, within the last three days."
"And the others——?"
"The others merely show the existence of some relationship between Colonel Darcy and Miss Fitzgerald, which they wished kept secret. I don't remember the exact wording. There's a letter which she writes from London to him at his home, begging him to come to town and 'leave his tiresome wife,' as they have 'matters of more importance' to attend to; and again she writes that she cannot meet him at 5 p. m., 'because she must account for her time to her "dragon,"'—alluding, I infer, to her aunt—but that he must manage to 'meet her accidentally and take her down to supper' at a party she is attending that night, 'so as not to arouse suspicion.'"
"All this proves nothing."
"Perhaps not—but the extracts are significant. Now take the two most recent."
"They were written from here. How were they obtained?"
"That doesn't concern us if they are genuine."
"One is certainly in Miss Fitzgerald's hand."
"The other was evidently torn from Darcy's letter-book. Read it."