"You dear! If I'd been like you——"
"I wish," said Jane, "you'd known Robert sooner."
Mrs. Tailleur's lips parted, but no voice came through them.
"Then," said Jane, "whatever happened never would have happened, probably."
"I wonder. What do you suppose happened?"
"I don't know. I've no business to know."
"What do you think? Tell me—tell me!"
"I think you've been very badly handled."
"Yes. You may think so."
"When you were young—too young to understand it."