"I was introduced to them by that name."
"They did not know you were the son of Mr. Samuel Boyd?"
"They did not."
"And you did not inform them?"
"Not for some time--not, indeed, till I was married."
"That is quite lately?"
"Yes."
"Have you any objection to inform us why you suppressed the name of Boyd? Were you ashamed of it?"
"You are pressing me rather hardly."
The Coroner: "I quite agree. Many of these questions are totally irrelevant."