"Forgive me!" said he; "I didn't know it. Poor woman!"
"I don't understand you! You knew my mother?"
"Ingrate!"
"Why, you're an amusing fellow! But your parents were invited to the funeral, were they not?"
"Whose parents?"
"Your father and mother!"
"Eh! What's this you're cackling to me about? My mother was dead before yours was born!"
"Your mother dead?"
"Yes, certainly; in '89!"
"What! Wasn't it your mother who sent you here?"