It all comes back to me, Mr.Pendril.

Mrs.
Vanstone looked excited and anxious, the moment she heard the place named.

They went to London together the next day; they explained nothing to their daughters, nothing to me.

Mrs.Vanstone said the journey was for family affairs.

I suspected something wrong; I couldn't tell what.
Mrs.Vanstone wrote to me from London, saying that her object was to consult a physician on the state of her health, and not to alarm her daughters by telling them.