"But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see
you?"
"Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and
Hosmer wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see
each other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and
he used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning,
so there was no need for father to know."
"Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?"
"Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that
we took. Hosmer—Mr. Angel—was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall
Street—and—"
"What office?"
"That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know."
"Where did he live, then?"
"He slept on the premises."
"And you don't know his address?"
"No—except that it was Leadenhall Street."
"Where did you addres
