This part of the proposition is very popular, particularly with the higher and middle classes, because it is the fashion, and a mark of bon ton, to enclose one's letter in an envelope, even though, or perhaps because, it subjects it to double postage.

Homo superioris, in fact. We are the humans' remote descendants, as far removed from them in time and evolution as they are from early Homo erectus.

'No, no one's called that at home,' said Heidi gravely.

Her memory lives on in our hearts.