when it's well on its way to the half-million, we announce the Archdeacon as the author of both books and I confirm his claim. Sensation unparalleled since the invention of writing! The sales of 'Edgar and Lilian' bound up beyond the half-million in a week and on to the three-quarters in a month, and "Trixie" takes an entirely new lease of life, and you and I are absolutely swamped in royalties.
"But if it leaks out now, when 'Trixie' is beginning to be forgotten and before 'Edgar and Lilian' is published, the sensation it'll produce will be a comparatively mild one, and the sales of 'Edgar and Lilian' will actually suffer. People are mad to read a book about which a sensation is going on; but if the sensation is over and done with, there's no particular reason for them to read the book. In fact, they'd rather not read it.