Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if we
had got home all safe, and after that we met him that is to say, Mr.
Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father came back
again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house any more.
No?
Well, you know father didn t like anything of the sort. He wouldn t
have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to say that a woman
should be happy in her own family circle. But then, as I used to say to
mother, a woman wants her own circle to begin with, and I had not got
mine yet.
But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see you?
Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer wrote
and said that it would be safer and better not to see each other until
he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he used to write every
day. I took the letters in in the morning, so there was no need for
father to know.
Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?
Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that we
took. Hosmer Mr. Angel was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall
Street and
What office?
That s the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don t know.
Where did he live, then?
He slept on the premises.
And you don t know his address?
No except that it was Leadenhall Street.
Where did you address your letters, then?
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