“No one sent it to me, Miss Woodhull,” she answered calmly.

“You will probably add that you have never seen it before.”

Beverly did not reply.

“Answer me at once.”

“Yes, I have seen it before.”

“Where did you last see it?”

“In my English history book.”

“How came it there, pray?”

“I put it there myself.”

“And yet you have the temerity to tell me that it is not yours? Are you in the habit of reading letters which are addressed to other people?”