She will try and hear of something that will suit him. Mrs.
Crofton cannot see Mrs. Piper for the present, as she is leaving home
to start on a round of visits, but she will keep in touch with Mr. and
Mrs. Piper and hopes to hear of something that may suit Piper very
soon.
She began by writing "Mr. Piper," on one of her pretty black-edged mauve
envelopes; then she altered the "Mr." to "Mrs." After all it was Piper's
wife who had written to her, and she suddenly remembered with a slight
feeling of apprehension, that Mrs. Piper, for some reason best known to
herself, had not told Piper that she was writing. On the other hand it
was quite possible that the husband and wife had concocted the letter
between them.
Having addressed the envelope, she suddenly got up and ran up to her
bedroom. There she opened her dressing-table drawer. Quite at the back
lay an envelope containing four L5 notes. She took one of the notes,
and running down again, slipped it in the envelope and added a postscript
to her letter:--
Mrs. Crofton sends L5, which she hopes will be of use while Piper is
out of a situation.
She went downstairs, giving her letter, on her way back to the
drawing-room, to the cook to take out to the post-box.
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