"I have been down to Birmingham again. I have now found an old waiter who remembers the circumstance perfectly well—Indian ayah and sick baby and funeral. He says he remembers you, but that I doubt. I have also found the medical man who was called in. He not only remembers the case, which he entered at the time in his note-book, but he also remembers you——"
"After four and twenty years——!"
"—and picked you out of a bundle of photographs. I think you will admit that this is an important step?"
She made no reply. Her face was drawn and twisted with the pain of listening.
"What is wanted now," Richard added, "is the connection of yourself and the child. If we fail there——"
"You will fail."
"We shall ask Sir Robert."
"You will fail."
"Then we shall give publicity to the case—I don't quite know how. All the world shall understand. You will have to explain——"