"Know the child? I'd know Sir Humphrey's child anywhere. Why, I saw him every day till he was six months old. A lovely child he was, with his light hair and his blue eyes."
"Did my lady come from Birmingham?"
"What would my lady be doing at Birmingham? She came straight through from Scotland from her noble pa, Lord Dunedin. The ayah told us so."
The page, who was listening, resigned, with a sigh, the prospect of getting that reward of ten thousand guineas.
Lady Woodroffe, upstairs, read the third advertisement, and grew faint and sick with fear.
Sir Robert read the advertisement. "Very good," he said. "Very good indeed. But if there had been any one who knew anything at all, there would have been an answer to the offer of two thousand pounds. Let them offer a million, if they like."
"Dick," said Molly, "it seemed very clever at first. But, you see, nothing has come of it."
"On the contrary, something has come of it. Mind you, the whole world is talking about the case. If it was a genuine adoption, the unknown woman would certainly have come forward."
"Why?"