"NOT connected?" says Mr. Guppy. "Oh! Not to your ladyship's knowledge, perhaps? Ah! But might be? Yes." After each of these interrogatories, she has inclined her head. "Very good! Now, this Miss Barbary was extremely close--seems to have been extraordinarily close for a female, females being generally (in common life at least) rather given to conversation--and my witness never had an idea whether she possessed a single relative. 
"Not to your ladyship's knowledge, perhaps? Ah! But might be? Very good!" says Mr. Guppy. "Now, this Miss Barbary was extremely close and secretive, and my witness never had an idea whether she possessed a single relative. 