"And not worth noticing, would you say if you dared? I used to think I was quite grown up in those days."
"You didn't--er--quite give the impression."
"I see I didn't make one," she said. "It's a very good lesson for one's vanity, isn't it?"
"And haven't you been back in all these years?"
"'All these years' sounds better," she said. "I believe you are learning. I've been back twice, if you want your question answered."
"It was kept quite a secret."
"Oh, dear, no! Everybody knew who cared anything about knowing."
"And where have you been, and what doing?"
"I was in the East. First I finished the seminary."
"And then?"