"I do not know," she said.
"She hardly ever tells me when she is returning.

She may be at home any day now.

You know how impulsively she acts." "Yes--just so." The minister's manner was absent.

"The fact is I wish very much to speak with your mother regarding a certain matter.

Not the matter we have been discussing, we will say no more of that, but a matter of great importance to--er--to me.