He is married." "I knew that he either was, or was about to be." "You have heard of him, then, since ?" Lucia raised her head sharply, and looked at her mother.
"Mrs.Bellairs told me.

They had heard it indirectly." "If you had only told me!" Her head sank lower than before.
"My darling, I may have been mistaken.

I have been so, many times; but I wished to avoid mentioning him to you.

I hoped you were forgetting." "Never; never for an hour," she said, half to herself.

"No, mamma, for I thought he had not forgotten." "But you sent him away yourself, my child.