'Does she know it?
Did you speak to her ?' 'We were talking of years ago, and I mentioned Clara Hewett.

I said that I had forgotten all about her except that she'd befriended Jane.
But nothing more than that.

I couldn't say what I was feeling just then.

Partly I thought that it was right to speak to you first; and then--it seemed to me almost as if I should be treating her unfairly.
I'm so much older--she knows that it isn't the first time I--and she's always thought of me just as a friend.' 'So much older ?' repeated Michael, with a grave smile.

'Why, you're both children to my sight.