One can hardly wonder at his taking refuge, poor fellow, in an assumed name.

Where could you have been at the time ?" "Did you say it was three years ago ?" I asked.
"Yes." "I think I can explain my strange ignorance of what was so well known to every one else.

Three years since my father was alive.

I was living with him in a country-house in Italy--up in the mountains, near Sienna.

We never saw an English newspaper or met with an English traveler for weeks and weeks together.