Mrs.Armstrong evidently did not care to talk on the subject.

The captain thought her attitude a little odd, but decided that the tragedy of her husband's death must be the cause of her reticence.

Her parting remarks on this occasion furnished an explanation.
"If you please, Captain Hunniwell," she said, "I would rather you did not tell any one about my having lived in Middleford and my affairs there.

I have told very few people in Orham and I think on the whole it is better not to.

What is the use of having one's personal history discussed by strangers ?" She was evidently a trifle embarrassed and confused as she said this, for she blushed just a little.