I can say, now that you are happily married,
that I am greatly relieved that you were not engaged to him. You
won't think this presumptuous of a man old enough to be your father,
will you? I am sure he had many good things in him, but he was very
weak and not fitted to look after you. But he had a good heart, I'm
sure, and his father's death was a great shock to him. Thurston, I
hear, is having revival meetings up and down the country. Miss
Avies, I believe, is with him. You remember Miss Pyncheon? She and
many other regular attendants at the Chapel have left this
neighbourhood. The Chapel is to be a cinematograph theatre, I
believe. There! I have given you all the gossip. I have not said
more about your aunts because I want you to come up one day to
London, when you have time, and see them. You will do that, won't
you? I expect you are very busy--I hope you are. I would like to
have a line from you, but please don't bother if you have too much
to do.
Always your friend,
WILLIAM MAGNUS.
When Maggie saw Martin's name the other writing on the page
transformed itself suddenly into a strange pattern of webs and
squares.
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