"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. On one occasion, and only one, she seems to have been confidential to my witness on a single point, and she then told her that the little girl's real name was not Esther Summerson, but Esther Hawdon."

"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. On one occasion only, she confided to my witness on a single point, and she then told her that the little girl's real name was not Esther Summerson, but Esther Hawdon."
