Chapter 63

_For me to essay to dispute your estimate of my endeavours would be indecent. With unerring instinct you have in a sentence laid bare the nakedness of the land. But, believe me, my dear Mr. Geoffray, I not only accept your masterly and, to my mind, irrefutable appreciation, but I have the honour to identify myself with every word that you write. I will go further. I regard the love-affair as the crowning insult of what I can only style an obscene libel calculated to arouse the worst inst…