They had parted before he had ever heard of Maggie." "Why hadn't he heard of her from Charlotte herself ?" "Because she had never spoken of her." "Is that also," the Colonel inquired, "what she has told you ?" "I'm not speaking," his wife returned, "of what she has told me.

That's one thing.

I'm speaking of what I know by myself.

That's another." "You feel, in other words, that she lies to you ?" Bob Assingham more sociably asked.
She neglected the question, treating it as gross.

"She never so much, at the time, as named Maggie." It was so positive that it appeared to strike him.