" This letter I addressed and stamped, and then, with a wry grimace which I palmed off on myself (but not on Adolphus) as a cheerful smile, I went out and dropped it into the post-box; after which I further deluded myself by murmuring Nunc dimittis and assuring myself that the incident was now absolutely closed.

Lots of the letters she wrote him I secured from the post-box, read them, and afterwards burned them.

To this central position, close to the post-box, the householders come to buy their supply of meat for Sunday, having their purchases weighed on scales placed on the flap at the back of the cart.

Two minutes later she saw the maid go out along the avenue to a post-box on the corner.

He appeared about five o'clock and simultaneously another man turned the corner near the post-box and spoke to him.

Miss Lance's path to the Hilldale School next morning took her past three post-boxes.

Not another word, Lucy is waiting to take this to the post-box.

Among the letters in her post-box, was one she felt instinctively to be from Andrew Bedient, though it was post-marked Albany.

And the grave servant, who was collecting all the other letters from the post-box in the hall, returned and placed beside his master on the table a blue envelope.

However, she had a certain anticipation of opposition, which caused her to act before announcing her intention; and thus it was that Rosamond found her dropping a number of notes through the slit in the lid of the post-box.