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For one whole week the post-bag carried to Mrs. Fen a sharp disappointment, instead of an expected letter. In the course of certain promenades and _tête-à-têtes_ at Bonham Court, Blagdon had accepted the lady's warm invitation to come and see them, and promised to fix his own day; indeed the last words he uttered, as he pressed her hand in a significant farewell, were:
"_I will write._"