"We've had quite enough of that since I returned." "I thought you found fault with me then for forgetting the past.

But let that pass, dear; it is not OUR affairs I wanted to talk to you about now," he said, stifling a sigh, "it's about your friend.

Please don't misunderstand what I am going to say; nor that I interpose except from necessity." She turned her dark brown eyes in his direction, but her glance passed abstractedly over his head into the garden.
"It's a matter perfectly well known to me--and, I fear, to all our servants also--that somebody is making clandestine visits to our garden.
I would not trouble you before, until I ascertained the object of these visits.

It is quite plain to me now that Dona Rosita is that object, and that communications are secretly carried on between her and some unknown stranger.

He has been here once or twice before; he was here again yesterday.