“So I have heard.”
“People wrote anonymous letters.”
“People do that sort of thing—women, I should have said.”
“You understand me.”
“Perfectly, madam; and the witnesses?”
Miss Saker put two plump fingers before her mouth.
“Bribery,” she lisped; “inquire at Callydon, Mr. Strong, and elsewhere; inquire at St. Aylmers. I need not advise you in this.”
“And the decree has been made absolute?”
“Six months—”
“It is too late, thank God, for mere intervention.”