She came to us when she was nineteen--she was married four years later.

She was a girl who had no friends or relatives--she had been educated at a school in the North--I engaged her from that school, where, I understood, she had lived since infancy.

Now then, as to Brake and Ransford.

They were two young men from London, who used to come fishing in Leicestershire.
Ransford was a few years the younger--he was either a medical student in his last year, or he was an assistant somewhere in London.

Brake--was a bank manager in London--of a branch of one of the big banks.