"She only said that it was a day when all the nursemaids had had their babies in the Park, and the lilacs were in bloom."
There followed the question of which he was most afraid, because he often put it to himself.
"Why should she have said that, when, if you were born in the Bronx, she and her baby were miles away?"
"I don't know, sir."
"What was your mother's maiden name?"
"I don't know, sir."
"She was married to Thomas Coburn before she was married to Theodore Whitelaw, your father?"
"Yes, sir."
"Where were she and your father married?"
"I don't know, sir."