While she was at Matching, and before Mr. Palliser had returned from Monkshade, a letter reached her, by what means she had never learned. "A letter has been placed within my writing-case," she said to her maid, quite openly. "Who put it there?" 
While she was at Matching, a letter reached her, by what means she never learned, although she suspected her maid of placing it inside her writing-case. 