pillar-post-box

Updated: June 16, 2025

Marceline was dropping a letter into the pillar-post-box at the corner of the Square; she changed colour, on seeing her master. "Corresponding with her sweetheart," Mr. Gallilee concluded. Entering the house with an unfinished cigar in his mouth, he made straight for the smoking-room and passed his youngest daughter, below him, waiting out of sight on the kitchen stairs. "Have you done it?"

Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time