“Well, so did I. Yet, after a year, back she went.”
“She went suddenly?” I suggested.
“So suddenly that I never knew a thing about it till after she was gone.
I came to do my chores one day, and she was here. I came the next, and
she had started back to Australia. That’s how sudden she went.”
“They must have had a falling-out,” I conjectured. “I suppose it was
because of the house.”
“Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t.”
“You know of other reasons?”
“I have eyes in my head,” she said. “But I’m not going to talk about it.
Shall we be getting on now, sir?”