He says Gretchen has none, and that he never saw this woman.

And yet I find among the things a photograph exactly like the picture in the window, and also like the child, who certainly bears a resemblance to my brother, though no one else, perhaps, would see it.

Now, sir,' he appeared to be addressing himself to some person unseen, from whom he shrank, for he drew himself as far as was possible to his side of the sleigh and shivered as he went on: 'Now, sir, is that sufficient proof to warrant me in turning everything topsy-turvy, and making Arthur crazier than he is ?' 'Certainly not,' he seemed to hear in reply, either from within or without, he hardly knew which, and he went on: 'I shall try to find out who the woman was, and where she came from; but how am I to do it?
how begin?
Arthur will not tell me a word about Gretchen, who she is, or what she is to him.

Still, I mean to be on the safe side, and do right by the child.

Arthur cannot live many years.