several years; she says that "it had made scarcely any impression at the time", that is, at the time when Dick was at sea.

As to Mrs. Musgrove remembering Captain Wentworth's name, JA says that it must have been "one of those extraordinary bursts of mind" that sometimes happen, precisely because they were not interested on the names of captains. Maybe Mrs. Musgrove stored the information in her subconcious memory, without been aware of it consciously, and then recalled it when she heard the captain's name.