"Oh! if you mean because you don't know them, that has nothing to do with it."
"But I have no claim either private or public."
"That has nothing to do with it either. They don't at all seek people of note as their correspondents. Free communication with all the world is their motto, and Rowland Hill is the god they worship. Only they have been forced to guard themselves against too great an accession of paper and ink. Are you fond of writing letters, Miss Vavasor?"
"Yes, to my friends; but I like getting them better."

"Oh! You don't need to know them. Free communication with all the world is their motto. Are you fond of writing letters, Miss Vavasor?"
"Yes, to my friends; but I like getting letters better."
