He said he had been on holiday in August.
After their father had died, the family became very poor.
The singer had hardly finished singing her her famous aria, when the audience began to applaud stormily.
Before they met, she had worked as a waitress in a cafe.
Everybody thought he had died of malaria in Africa.
I thought they had moved to a new flat.
When I rang her up, she had already gone to her summer cottage.
Nobody knew what had happened to them.
When they returned from the theatre, the maid had already left.
After he had left for the North, she heard nothing about him.