And, after all, he did not know me! Just think of it--ten whole years away; the years I was growing up into a man.

He could not know me.

Do you think he could ?" Mrs.Gould shook her head negatively; which was just what her husband had expected from the strength of the argument.

But she shook her head negatively only because she thought that no one could know her Charles--really know him for what he was but herself.

The thing was obvious.