“It's sealed, as I tell you, and I don't know what it contains.”
“Why is it sent through you?”
“Rather than you?” I hesitated a moment. “The only explanation I can think of is that the person sending it may have imagined your relations with Miss Anvoy to be at an end—may have been told they were by Mrs. Saltram.”
“My relations with Miss Anvoy are not at an end,” poor Gravener stammered.
Again, for an instant, I deliberated. “The offer I propose to make you gives me the right to put you a question remarkably direct. Are you still engaged to Miss Anvoy?”
“No, I'm not,” he slowly brought out. “But we're perfectly good friends.”
“Such good friends that you will again become prospective husband and wife if the obstacle in your path be removed?”
“Removed?” Gravener vaguely repeated.
“If I give Miss Anvoy the letter I speak of she may drop her project.”
“Then for God's sake give it!”