It was a perfectly plain case.

I always said so." "Why, no you didn't!--at least that summer." "Oh, no, not that summer.

No, you are perfectly right about that.

It was the following winter that I said it." "Well, as it turned out, Mary was not in the least to blame -- it was all her father's fault--at least his and old Darley's." It was necessary to say something--so I said: "I always regarded Darley as a troublesome old thing." "So he was, but then they always had a great affection for him, although he had so many eccentricities.

You remember that when the weather was the least cold, he would try to come into the house." I was rather afraid to proceed.