"He knew you all the time--oh, but perhaps he did not know your name ?" "Indeed he did.

He's constantly sending things to the house." "How extraordinary! Did you ever hear such an astonishing thing in your life ?" "You said more than once," remarked Bertha, "that Mr.Warburton was a man of mystery." "Oh, but how _could_ I have imagined--! grocer!" "In an apron!" added the other, with awed voice.
"But, Bertha, does Norbert know?
He declared he had never found out what Mr.Warburton did.

Was that true, or not ?" "Ah, that's the question.

If poor Mr.Franks has had this secret upon his soul! I can hardly believe it.

And yet--they are such intimate friends." "He must have known it," declared Rosamund.
Thereupon she became mute, and only a syllable of dismay escaped her now and then during the rest of the walk to the Crosses' house.