Read it through once

Not long after this strange visit, there came to us from the General a letter, begging that my father would excuse his lady for not coming to us as usual; she was ill, and confined to her room. We heard afterwards that the old woman who had died at our house was a connection of the General's lady, and that she had been travelling to the castle. The circumstance excited much talk; but for my part, I never thought of the matter again, till years afterwards.