“I don’t remember, sir. I don’t think so.”
“Did she tell you what was the cause of her death?”
“No, sir. I wrote and asked her to send me word about it, but I didn’t hear again after that from Sarah Jane for a long time, and then she wrote and said she’d been living in France.”
“Did you ever write and ask your daughter Sarah Jane who it was she had married?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Did she tell you?”
“No. She said she had to keep her marriage quite secret, and it was safest to say nothing.”
“Did either of your daughters tell you when they left their situation?”
“No, sir.”
“Then, for all you knew to the contrary, Sarah Jane might still have been there all these years?”