"You lost her--and you're unmarried." Mr.Longdon's smile was beautiful--it supplied so many meanings that when presently he spoke he seemed already to have told half his story.
"Well, my life took a form.

It had to, or I don't know what would have become of me, and several things that all happened at once helped me out.

My father died--I came into the little place in Suffolk.

My sister, my only one, who had married and was older than I, lost within a year or two both her husband and her little boy.

I offered her, in the country, a home, for her trouble was greater than any trouble of mine.