"Then what is your meaning?"
"Are you sure that your daughter left no issue?"
Anthony's brow contracted, not with anger but with pain. The old wound had not healed.
"I never heard of any," he answered, after a pause.
"Yet there may have been a child."
"And if there were?"
"It would be your grandchild," said the lawyer, firmly.
"And his child," said the hermit, bitterly.
"You should not impute that to the child for blame."
"What would you have me do, old friend?"