Of course I only know from what I've been told.

I was a schoolgirl in England at the time." "Of course," Thresk agreed.

He was conscious of a sharp little stab of resentment.

So very quickly Stella had forgotten that morning on the Downs! It must have been in the autumn of that same year that she had gone out to India, and by February she was married.

The resentment was quite unjustified, as no one knew better than himself.