But that won't exactly go down with J.J.

Snowdon; he's seen a bit too much in his knocking about the world, Still, what if I'm making a mistake about the old woman?
There _are_ some people do things of that sort; upon my soul, I've known people be kind even to me, without a chance of being paid back! You may think you know a man or a woman, and then all at once they'll go and do something you'd have taken your davy couldn't possibly happen.

I'd have sworn she was nothing but a skinflint and a lying old witch.

And so she maybe; the chances are there's some game going on that I can't see through.

Make inquiries?
Why, so I have done, as far as I know how.
I've only been able to hit on one person who knows anything about the matter, and he tells me it's true enough the girl was taken away about three years ago, but he's no idea where she went to.