 If you will kindly allow me to do the talking. Or rather, if you will permit Mrs. Forestier to speak. Then she is here in the house? No. My... My wife will speak to you through a letter she left behind for me. I only discovered it this evening. For you see, she had placed it in a volume of verse from which I often read to her. Oddly enough, I had thought I would never want to open the sonnets from the Portuguese again.