"Many and many a time!" "Oh, well....

Relatives, you know...." Sarah murmured vaguely.

This was the only reference to the estrangement.

She went on with more vivacity.
"And then Mr.Cannon has always had ideas about boarding-houses and furnished rooms and so on.

He always did say there was lots of money to be made out of them if only they were managed properly; only they never are....