“Horrid blackmail.”
“What are the letters referred to?”
“Mine, written before I was married.”
“Why, then, should you fear to have your husband see them?”
“Well, they are compromising—that is, some of them—that is, in a way. They were written while I was engaged to the one who is now my husband, to a man of whom my husband is now and always has been desperately jealous.”
“Who is this Brown Robin?”
“Don’t you know?”
“I was asking if you knew.”
“I only know that it is a name under which some one is making my life miserable. Who and what is the Brown Robin?”
“A blackmailer, evidently. I have heard of the name as used by a person in various cities, and latterly in New York.”