The Belfry by May Sinclair — Read

Then I went back and told Viola about it. I took her into my library that / had once been Jevons's study, where he had delivered the Grand Attack. I / gave her a letter that Jevons had scribbled before lunch in the hotel at / Folkestone. I suppose he had explained things in it.

But as for me, or any power I had to break it to her, I might just as / well have told her that he was dead.