'Is it likely that this nephew can know anything about that beautiful girl?
When Tim Linkinwater gave me to understand the other day that he was coming to take a share in the business here, he said he had been superintending it in Germany for four years, and that during the last six months he had been engaged in establishing an agency in the north of England.

That's four years and a half--four years and a half.

She can't be more than seventeen--say eighteen at the outside.

She was quite a child when he went away, then.

I should say he knew nothing about her and had never seen her, so HE can give me no information.