It's upsetting to have a stranger know the family problems.
And if that was indeed the case, what else did this stranger know?
Now the things I'd done were becoming a real part of the world as total strangers knew it.
The point is, son, no stranger would have known about that place.
"Mary, maybe the stranger knows him better than this village does."
A couple more issues and no stranger would know him on sight at all.
Any stranger looking at them would have known that they went to the same school.
Because the friends of people connected to the child care center are more likely than strangers to know what we do and support our efforts.
The two strangers were all this time looking on, and did not know what to say for wonder.
A total stranger would never have known three such perfect ways to hurt her.