All the jewellery and dresses, and everything that Miss Ludington has given me, I have left behind, except the clothes I had to have to go away in, and these I will return as soon as I get where I am going.

Oh, my poor Paul! I am no more Ida Ludington than you are.

How could you ever believe such a thing?
But let me tell my shameful story in order.

Perhaps it was not so strange that you were deceived.

I think any one might have been who held the belief you did at the outset.
"I am Ida Slater, Mrs.Slater's daughter, whom she named after Miss Ludington, because she thought her name so pretty when they went to school together as children in Hilton.