I had a daughter--a widow--whom I rather expected to arrive from abroad towards the end of the week.

But I was quite vague." "Because you thought I had no chance!" "I had not heard your evidence.

The very afternoon I did hear it, and had no longer any doubt about the issue in my own mind, I also heard of this wreck.

The very thing! I waited till next morning for the list of the saved; luckily there were plenty of them; and I picked out the name of a married woman travelling alone, and therefore very possibly a widow, from the number.

Then I went to the manager.