She was larger, heavier, more grown-up.

Her lines were rounder, her muscles fuller, and there was about her that indefinite something of maturity that was new to her and that incited me on.

Three years she had been gone--three years at the very least, and the change in her was marked.

I say three years; it is as near as I can measure the time.

A fourth year may have elapsed, which I have confused with the happenings of the other three years.