"What happened to your match then?"
"Now you are asking riddles," she said. "That question has never been satisfactorily answered."
"You mean you don't wish to tell me, I suppose."
"I'd give anything in the world if I could. He was reported dead eight years ago, but—"
"He isn't?"
"He wasn't then."
"How do you know?"
"He was heard from after."
"Then he's alive still—you know that much?"
"No," she replied languorously. "I don't know that much. He may have died since, don't you see?"