"Price!"
"You didn't expect Seligmann to give them up for nothing?"
"He wanted her to go on tour, I believe, instead of bringing her out in town, as he had half promised to do."
"It was natural perhaps that your future wife should be willing to make a sacrifice for your sake."
"It was hardly a sacrifice. She is not good enough for the London stage. Besides, I am not engaged to her. Friendship is——"
"I warrant she considers herself engaged to you."
"I cannot help that."
"Of course not," said the professor, "but you were glad enough to get the papers. May I look at the envelope they came in?"
"I destroyed it," Marsh replied to my utter astonishment.
"That is a pity. If Miss Wickham says she did not get those papers, it will be awkward for you. Could you swear the writing on the envelope was hers?"