It was only when she was alone that she would give way to low spirits and gloomy thoughts about the future." "Did she ever tell you anything about Mr.Holbrook--his position or profession?
how long she had known him?
how and where they had first met ?" "No, sir.

She told me once that he was not rich; I think that is about all she ever said of him, except when she spoke of his influence over her, and her trust in him." "Have you any idea where they were going to live after their marriage ?" "I cannot tell you the name of the place.

Miss Nowell said that a friend of Mr.Holbrook's was going to lend him an old farm-house in a very pretty part of the country.

It would be very lonely, she said, and her husband would have sometimes to leave her to attend to his business in London; but she would not mind that.

'Some day, I daresay, he will let me live in London with him,' she said; 'but I don't like to ask him that yet.'" "Did she drop no hint as to the whereabouts of this place to which they were going ?" "It was somewhere in Hampshire; that is all I can remember." "I would give a great deal to know more," Gilbert said with a sigh.