So I persuaded my dear love, who was easily induced to do anything I wished, to consent to our secret being kept from you religiously for the time being, and to that end we were married under a false name--not exactly a false name either.

You remember my asking you if you had ever heard the name of Holbrook before your hunt after Marian's husband?
You said no; yet I think you must have seen the name in some of my old college books.

I was christened John Holbrook.

My grandmother was one of the Holbrooks of Horley-place, Sussex, people of some importance in their day, and our family were rather proud of the name.

But I have dropped it ever since I was a lad." "No, I don't think I can ever have seen the name; I must surely have remembered it, if I had seen it." "Perhaps so.