A Bride of the Plains by Emma Orczy

By the time that Andor turned the corner of the house into the street, he found that the news of his arrival had already spread through the village like wildfire. Klara Goldstein's ready tongue had been at work this past hour; she had quickly disseminated the news that the wanderer had come home. She did not say that the malice and love of mischief in her had caused her to say nothing to Andor about Elsa's coming wedding.

She merely told the first neighbour whom she came across that Lakatos Andor had come back, just as she, for one, had always declared that he would.