“A letter?”
“Will you forgive me for not placing it in your hands sooner?”
“Certainly, if you passed your word to the countess; but where is this letter?”
“Wait a minute.”
She drew a large bundle of papers from her pocket, saying,—
“This is my certificate of baptism.”
“I see you were born in 1746.”
“This is a certificate of ‘good conduct.’”
“Keep it, it may be useful to you.”
“This is my certificate of virginity.”