Perhaps you mayn't know that Rachel was, in early life, engaged to be married to a young man whom she ardently loved.

She was a different woman then from what she is now.

But her lover deserted her just before the wedding was to have come off, and she's never got over the disappointment.

But that isn't what I was going to talk about.

You haven't told me about your adopted sister." "That's the very thing I've come to Philadelphia about," said Jack, soberly.