Trent's Last Case

Excerpt from The Woman in Black
My dear Gilbert:
I dedicate this story to you. First: because the only really noble motive I had in writing it was the hope that you would enjoy it Second: because I owe you a book in return for The Man Who Was Thursday. Third: because I said I would when I unfolded the plan of it to you, surrounded by Frenchmen, two years ago. Fourth: because I remember the past.
I have been thinking again to-day of those astonishing times w.hen neither of us ever looked at a newspaper; when we were purely happy in the boundless consumption of paper, pencils, tea and our elders patience; when we embraced the most severe literature, and ourselves produced such light reading as was necessary; when (in the words of Canadas poet) we studied the works of nature, also those little frogs; when, in short, we were extreniely young.
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