Hetta found the telling of her story to be very difficult. "Mrs. Hurtle," she said, "I had never heard your name when he first asked me to be his wife."
"I dare say not. Why should he have told you anything of me?"
"Because,--oh, because--. Surely he ought, if it is true that he had once promised to marry you."
"That certainly is true."
"And you were here, and I knew nothing of it. Of course I should have been very different to him had I known that,--that,--that--"

Hetta found the telling of her story to be very difficult. "Mrs. Hurtle," she said, "I had never heard your name when he first asked me to be his wife."
"I dare say not. Why should he have told you anything of me?"
"Surely he ought, if he had once promised to marry you. I should have been very different to him had I known that - that-"
