It was all altered--by Charlotte's going to Florence.

She went from one day to the other--you forget everything.

She gave her reasons, but I thought it odd, at the time; I had a sense that something must have happened.

The difficulty was that, though I knew a little, I didn't know enough.

I didn't know her relation with him had been, as you say, a 'near' thing--that is I didn't know HOW near.