"Come, Jennie, don't be so formal, but call me father again, for I have tried to be all to you that your own father could have been."

"I know no other, sir, so I will call you father, if you wish; but you did not tell me what my father's name was?"

"His name was Woodbridge."

"His first name, please, father?"

"Brookes Woodbridge."

"Thank you, and my mother's name?"

"She was a Miss Virginia Margrave."

"Where was their home, sir?"

"In New York City."