“How much can you know, Ivon?”
“Everything. I have taken pains to inquire.”
“Knowing that she was a shop-girl, what more did you wish to learn?”
“All that could be told.”
“Well, what did you learn?”
The lady spoke breathlessly, as if the subject pained her, and she was impatient to end it.
“I learned who her parents were.”
“Well?”
“Her father was a policeman.”
“A policeman! Well, what more?”