His eyes were on the ground, his shoulders bent; she could not see his face.
"We must try and unravel it--together," he said, at last, with an effort.

"Can you tell me your mother's name ?" "It was an old Staffordshire family.

But she and papa met in America, and they married there.

Her father died not long afterward, I think.

And I have never heard of any relations but the one sister, Mrs.Merton.