"You have not lived all these months in this house without knowing that Captain Danton had a son ?" "I have heard it." "Three years ago this son ran away from home, and went to New York, under an assumed name.

Three years ago Henry Darling came first to New York from Canada.

Henry Darling commits a crime, and flies.

A few months after Captain Danton comes here, with a mysterious invalid, who is never seen, who is too ill to leave his room by day, but quite able to go out for midnight rambles in the grounds.

Old Margery has known Captain Danton's son from childhood.