[ perhaps rose could impart to helen what had been going on with her recently but it wasn't about her right now; helen's troubles were much more important. ]
Did they disappear for sometime and then come back again? I know it's happened before.
[ she isn't aware, not fully at least; rose had an idea that helen had someone in her life. she also knows that she should keep a better tab on what her friends were doing and what was going on in their lives but sometimes that never happened.]