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The letter was soon written. But then came the question of how to post it. Ella would not send it openly with the rest of the letters as usual, for she was afraid of Madelene's catching sight of it.
"I will take it to the post-office in the village myself," she decided. "They won't miss me. They are far too busy and absorbed about Ermine. And Sir Philip will very likely be coming over to luncheon. How I wish I could say I was ill and keep out of the way! It is too hard to feel myself a complete stranger and alien in my own home -- and it will cut me off from dear godmother too. I can never see much of _her_ now."