“Where is she now?”
“She has been dead some six years. She died broken-hearted. Her life and mine were most wretchedly alike.”
“How so?”
“Her husband deserted her, taking their only child, a girl, away with him.”
“Where did they go?”
“I don’t know. They disappeared, were never heard of again, and I suppose both are dead.”
“Why did the girl go with the father and desert the mother?”
“She was her father’s idol, and he hers. She took his side of the quarrel.”
“What was her name?”
“Same as her mother—Estelle. But what has all this to do with my child?[{49}]”