"I am, but to me it is 'yet so near and still so far.' Here is the picture, but the original was but five or six when that was taken and she is now a woman of over forty. She cannot be shadowed on a resemblance."
"But you have a clue."
"Yes, I have a clue, but a very thin and unsatisfactory one."
"You are not getting discouraged?"
"I never get discouraged, but I do wish we had that letter."
"You cannot possibly wish it more than I do."
"You are absolutely certain that it is lost? You do not hold back a surprise for me?"
"I do not; I sincerely wish that I did."
"I will tell you something: that girl was not the granddaughter of the old fisherman Canfield. I do not believe she was a relative at all, and do you observe the suggestion?"
"I do not."