afterward-when

Updated: May 13, 2025

Looking away toward the paddock that lay brilliant in sunshine on the skirts of the apple orchard, she asked in low slow tones, twisting her hands in her lap: "Don't you think that perhaps if B found out afterward-when she had married A, you know that she had cared for him so very, very much, he might be a little sorry?" "If he were a gentleman he would regret it deeply."

Anthony Hope - Comedies of Courtship