He has been married to her once already, and now I should say it is pretty clear that he will be married to her again." "Indeed," quoth I, wondering what that meant.
"Here is the whole tale," said old Hammond; "a short one enough; and now I hope a happy one: they lived together two years the first time; were both very young; and then she got it into her head that she was in love with somebody else.

So she left poor Dick; I say _poor_ Dick, because he had not found any one else.

But it did not last long, only about a year.
Then she came to me, as she was in the habit of bringing her troubles to the old carle, and asked me how Dick was, and whether he was happy, and all the rest of it.

So I saw how the land lay, and said that he was very unhappy, and not at all well; which last at any rate was a lie.

There, you can guess the rest.