Because if I know one thing, it cannot be your vague anxiety over a long-ago affair that has brought this about.

Moody, judgemental Les Boulter and his nurturing wife Denise harboured a secret about a long-ago affair.

Denise Boulter had been largely ostracised by her outraged daughter and husband after the truth about her long-ago affair with Caleb came to light.

As he stirs the dead embers of his long-ago affair, the others can't help seeing in him the very intensity they lack.

Joyce Maynard decided to profit by writing about a long-ago affair with J. D. Salinger, a man who treasures privacy.

In his wife's closet he discovers some hidden love letters disclosing her long-ago affair with a mutual friend.

Recalling a long-ago affair with Elvis Presley, she even tells us that yes, he could have used Viagra.

He thought of their brief, long-ago affair and wondered again why it had ended so abruptly.

They would, of course, know nothing of the long-ago affair of their great-to-the-Nth grandparents.

"Who wants to invest in a place with all this unseemly fighting over long-ago affairs?"