That is, only a little.

I got a hint and I suspicioned somethin' afore.

The rest I saw with my own eyes." He was now white, but his jaw shot forward and his teeth closed.
"If you do know," he said, "you must realize that my place is with her.
Now, when she is in trouble--" "Would you want to make that trouble greater?
More than she could bear ?" "I think I might help her to bear it.

Mrs.Coffin, you have been my truest friend, but one, in Trumet.

You HAVE been like a mother to me.
But I have thought this out to the end and I shall go through with it.
It is my affair--and hers.