"I am sure she knows something.

I went into her room before luncheon, and she was sitting with her head down on the dressing-table, and when she looked up I saw she had been crying.

I don't know what to say about it to Ralph; but you know,"-- with a shake of the curls--"though people may think me only a silly little thing, yet I do notice things, Colonel Middleton.

Aunt Alice in Dublin often says how quickly I notice things.

And I thought, as you were staying on, and seemed to be a friend, I would tell you this before I went away, as you would know best what to do about it." Aurelia had more insight into character than I had given her credit for.
She had hit upon the most likely person to follow out a clew, however slight, in a case that seemed becoming more and more complicated.