He too was engaged to dine out that night, but he did not go.

Hannah, Mrs.Ellsworthy, and he had a long conference, which lasted until late in the evening, and when Mr.Ellsworthy joined them he was told a very wonderful story.

Hannah returned to Devonshire on the following morning very well pleased with her successful expedition.
"If there had been any doubt," she said to herself, as she was being whirled homewards in her third-class carriage, "if there had been any doubt after the sight of that mole on his dear, blessed arm, why, the little shirt which Mrs.Ellsworthy showed me, and which she took off his back herself after them horses had all but killed him, would prove that he's my own boy.

Could I ever forget marking that shirt in cross-stitch, and making such a bungle over the A, and thinking I'd put Mainwaring in full, and then getting lazy, and only making the mark A.M.?
Well, I was served out for that piece of laziness, for my boy might have been brought back to his mother but for it.

Dear, dear! Well, there's no mistaking my own A.M., and when I peered close with my glasses on I could even see where I unpicked the A.and did it over again.