Who else is there to get it?
Not that old mother Tadman, surely.

She's an artful old harridan; and if my girl had not been a fool, she'd have got rid of her out of hand when she married.

Sure to goodness _she_ can never stand between Stephen and his wife.

And who else is there?
No one that I know of; no one.

Stephen wouldn't have kept any secret all these years from the folks he's lived amongst.