There were others

[Johnyxxx]

Hello.

I am not sure if I understand the bold text correctly. Does it mean "I heard for a while she had other boyfriends after I had left her"?


“Can you believe that a man could be so stupid? He never knew of my existence, this big, red booby. He never knew that I existed until—until his 'dream' had fled—with me! In a week we were in Paris, that dream-girl and I—in a month we had quarrelled. I always end these matters with a quarrel; it makes the complete finish. She struck me in the face—and I laughed. She turned and went away. We were tired of one another.
“Ah!” Again he airily kissed his hand. “There were others after I had gone. I heard for a time. But her memory is like a rose, fresh and fair and sweet. I am glad I can remember her so, and not as she afterward became. That is the art of love. She killed herself with absinthe, my friends. She died in Marseilles in the first year of the great war.”

Tcheriapin by Sax Rohmer, 1921.


Thanks a lot.

 

[emsr2d2]

Are you sure that the punctuation after "gone" is a full stop, not a comma?

 

[Johnyxxx]

Yes, a full stop.

Thanks a lot for helping me.

 

[probus]

The text of the novel is available online at the Literature Network. Johnyxxx is correct.

 

[emsr2d2]

Fair enough about the punctuation. It doesn't really change the answer to the question, which is yes, that's what it means.