"Oh yes; Roger Carbury has heard about her from the beginning;—knows the whole history almost as well as I know it myself. I don't think your brother is as well informed."
"Perhaps not. But—isn't it a story that—concerns me?"
"Certainly it so far concerns you, Hetta, that you ought to know it. And I trust you will believe that it was my intention to tell it you."
"I will believe anything that you will tell me."
"If so, I don't think that you will quarrel with me when you know all. I was engaged to marry Mrs. Hurtle."
"Is she a widow?"—He did not answer this at once. "I suppose she must be a widow if you were going to marry her."
"Yes;—she is a widow. She was divorced."
"Oh, Paul! And she is an American?"
"Yes."
"And you loved her?"