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The next morning, as Wingfold ate his breakfast by an open window / looking across the churchyard, he received a letter by the local / post. It was as follows: --
"Dear Mr. Wingfold, I am about to take an unheard-of liberty, but my / reasons are such as make me bold. The day may come when I shall be / able to tell you them all. Meantime I hope you can help me. I want / very much to ask your counsel upon a certain matter, and I cannot / beg you to call, for my aunt knows nothing of it. Could you contrive / a suitable way of meeting? You may imagine my necessity is grievous / when I thus expose myself to the possible bitterness of my own after / judgment. But I must have confidence in the man who spoke as you did / yesterday morning. I am, dear Mr. Wingfold, sincerely yours, Helen / Lingard.