“Sometimes; but not often. I’m not much of a scholar myself, and I couldn’t write back, so I suppose they got tired of writing.”
“When did you next see your daughter Sarah Jane?”
The witness hesitated, but the question was pressed, and finally came the answer, “Yesterday.”
“Then, from the day they left home until yesterday, an interval of between twenty and thirty years, you have never set eyes on your daughter?”
“No, sir.”
“And yet you are positive she is your daughter?”
“Quite sure, sir.”
“Did you know of her marriage?”
“Yes.”
“When did you hear of it?”