Forgive me if I'm wrong, but haven't we met before.
如果我弄错的话请原谅我,我们以前见过面吧?
She never mends her clothes; they all have holes in them.
她从来都不补缀衣服。因此,衣服上到处都是破洞。
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.