"Who is the lady?"
Thereupon I told Pyper all I dared: enough, as I thought, to explain the position in which I was placed, but not enough to break my faith with Trevisa or to be of any service to the Killigrews.
"But why did you seek to take the maid away?"
"That I cannot tell at present," I replied.
He was thoughtful for a second, and I began to see that Hugh Pyper had more brains that I had given him credit for; then he said:
"And the name of this maid, Roger Trevanion?"
I hesitated for a second.
"I think I know," he went on. "Is she not the child of Godfrey Molesworth?"
"Did you know him?" I asked
"Know him!" he cried, "well. Why the woman he married was some relation of the Killigrews, that is why old Colman became guardian of the child. The mother was Irish. Godfrey Molesworth went to Ireland to marry her."