And I suppose that, as I lived in almost as quiet a neighbourhood as this, I must have been curious and interested about a new-comer, much as you are." Lucia turned her head a little, and smiled to herself.
"And then ?" she said.
"Then most likely I asked questions, and found out all I could about the new-comer, which, I suppose, you have been doing about Mr.Percy.

Bella Latour ought to be a good authority." "I have not asked any questions.

I thought perhaps you might know something about him, or at least about his family." "About him I certainly know nothing.

It is twenty years since I left England, and he would then be only a child.

His father I have seen two or three times.