Now I'll tell you a secret.

If you hadn't come here, I should have married General Whittingham long ago.

I stayed here intending to do it (oh, yes, I'm not a nice girl, Jack), and he asked me very soon after you first arrived.

I gave him my money, you know, then." I was listening intently.

It seemed as if some things were going to be cleared up.
"Well," she continued, "you know what happened.