"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."

"Perhaps not. But - isn't it a story that - concerns me?"
"Certainly you ought to know it, Hetta. And I trust you will believe that it was my intention to tell it you."
"I will believe anything that you will tell me."
"Well, then, I was engaged to marry Mrs. Hurtle."
"Is she a widow? I suppose she must be a widow if you were going to marry her."
