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to constitute the great gravamen of her complaint. If Miss Annie ever said any such thing as is charged she can perhaps tell you from whom she heard it, but whether she should give the name of her informant is a matter for your decision, I have no copy of my letter to you, but as well as I remember its purport, I rather dissuaded you from engaging the services of Mrs West, not however on account of the conjecture to which I have asserted, nor any supposed incapacity on her part to instruct your children, but because I thought she had been accustomed to too much of fashionable life and was rather too dashy a dame for your quiet domestic home in the country, to say nothing of her being a stranger about whom too little was known. In your letter you remark “I am told that I am writing to one who represents the writer (Mrs Medway) as counsel. I should like to know who it is that assumes to be thus cognizant of my professional engagements. Whoever the person may be, let me assure you that your informant is entirely mistakenin his surmise, as I knew nothing about this affair until your letter reached me, and I have neither been in the company of Mrs Medway or spoken to her, since my interest with her now near three years ago, and to which I have already adverted,