That's six years ago.

Perhaps I've changed some." The absence of recognition may have disconcerted her.

She turned her head to the fire again, and it was some seconds before she again spoke, and then more rapidly: "Well, you see I thought some of you must have known me.

There's no great harm done, anyway.

What I was going to say was this: Jim here"-- she took his hand in both of hers as she spoke--"used to know me, if you didn't, and spent a heap of money upon me.