But you might just as well have died.

No one was the wiser and you were given up as lost.

A week later, my mother and Mr.
Banks started for America.

You and I were with them, but you went as the daughter of a maid-servant--Ellen Hayes.
"This is the story as my mother has told it to me after all these years.
My stepfather's plan, of course, was to place you where you could never be found, and then to see to it that our grandfather did not succeed in changing his will.

Moreover, he was bound and determined that he himself should be named as trustee--when the fortune came over at Lord Brace's death.