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-- I have written my reply to Miss Verinder . The arrangement I have proposed reconciles the interests on both sides , if she will only consent to it . After first stating the objections that there are to a meeting between Mr. Blake and herself , before the experiment is tried , I have suggested that she should so time her journey as to arrive at the house privately , on the evening when we make the attempt . Travelling by the afternoon train from London , she would delay her arrival until nine o'clock . At that hour , I have undertaken to see Mr. Blake safely into his bedchamber ; and so to leave Miss Verinder free to occupy her own rooms until the time comes for administering the laudanum . When that has been done , there can be no objection to her watching the result , with the rest of us . On the next morning , she shall show Mr. Blake -LRB- if she likes -RRB- her correspondence with me , and shall satisfy him in that way that he was acquitted in her estimation , before the question of his innocence was put to the proof .