I'm not speaking of that time at Malvern--that came later." "Precisely--I understand.

You're speaking of the first years of her widowhood." Mr.Longdon just faltered.

"I should call them rather the last.

Six months later came her second marriage." Vanderbank's interest visibly improved.

"Ah it was THEN?
That was about my seventh year." He called things back and pieced them together.