I wonder at poor little Edith giving me away." "All that I know is that you are living here under a false name," he declared.
She shook her head.
"My mother's," she told him.

"The discarded daughter always has a right to that, you know." Her eyes mocked him.

He felt himself helpless.

This was the opportunity for which he had longed, and it had come to him in vain.

He recognized the fact that his defeat was imminent.