"Yes," said Jack, nodding; "what color were her eyes?"
"Blue."
"So are Ida's."
"A small mouth, with a very sweet expression, yet with something firm and decided about it."
"Yes."
"And I believe her dress was a light one, with a blue ribbon round the waist."
"Did she wear anything around her neck?"
"A brown scarf, if I remember rightly."
"That is the way Ida was dressed when she went away with Mrs. Hardwick. I am sure it must be she. But how strange that she should come into your shop!"
"Perhaps," suggested his uncle, "this woman, representing herself as Ida's nurse, was her mother."