'A year or so since.'
'When did you return from America?'
'Two days back.'
'And paid your visit to Copsley immediately?'
'As early as I could.'
'That was true friendliness. You have a letter for me?'
'I have.'
He put his hand to his pocket for the letter.
'Presently,' she said. She divined the contents, and nursed her resolution to withstand them. Danvers had brought firewood and coal. Orders were given to her, and in spite of the opposition of the maid and intervention of the gentleman, Diana knelt at the grate, observing:
'Allow me to do this. I can lay and light a fire.'