I was only a boy then, you know.

But how have you heard so much about me ?" "Billingsfield," said Mrs.Goddard with a faint smile, "is not a large place.

The Ambroses are very fond of you and always talk of what you are doing." "And so you really live here, Mrs.Goddard?
How long is it since you came?
Mr.Ambrose never told me--" "I have been here more than two years--two years last October," she answered quietly.
"The very year I left--only a month after I was gone.

How strange!" Mrs.Goddard looked up nervously.

She was frightened lest John should have made any deductions from the date of her arrival.