He--he is not my grandfather.' 'Father, I should have said,' returned the hostess, sensible of having made an awkward mistake.
'Nor my father' said the young lady.

'Nor,' she added, slightly smiling with a quick perception of what the landlady was going to add, 'Nor my uncle.

We are not related.' 'Oh dear me!' returned the landlady, still more embarrassed than before; 'how could I be so very much mistaken; knowing, as anybody in their proper senses might that when a gentleman is ill, he looks so much older than he really is?
That I should have called you "Miss," too, ma'am!' But when she had proceeded thus far, she glanced involuntarily at the third finger of the young lady's left hand, and faltered again; for there was no ring upon it.
'When I told you we were not related,' said the other mildly, but not without confusion on her own part, 'I meant not in any way.

Not even by marriage.

Did you call me, Martin ?' 'Call you ?' cried the old man, looking quickly up, and hurriedly drawing beneath the coverlet the paper on which he had been writing.