“I promise.”
“I am afraid you will think but little of it when you know all; but I promised to tell you, so I will now fulfil my promise. In the first place, you know my name is Crispin.”
“Yes; and have often wondered at its terseness. Have you no surname?”
“No legal surname.”
“Why not?”
“Because I am a natural son.”
“Illegitimate!” said Maurice, startled.
“Yes. Now you see the reason for my returning to Melnos.”
“You wish to find out who you really are.”
“I do; from Justinian.”