"No, ma'am."
"Of course he has told you where you were born?"
"P'r'aps."
"Perhaps what?"
"P'r'aps he did."
"But you don't remember?"
"No, ma'am."
Nobody likes to be thwarted in the pursuit of knowledge. In this case it seemed to Miss Clement that the deeper she delved the less she found.
"Don't you remember ever having seen a portrait of her?"
"Of course not."