Just fancy, auntie, she actually knew my father! She knew him before he was married, and they were tremendous friends.
It all came out because she said I was so like somebody, and she couldn't think who it could be, and then she asked what my surname was, and so on, till we found out all about it.

Wasn't it curious?
Did you ever hear of her before ?" "Indeed I never knew of her existence till this moment," answered Aunt Charlotte, beginning to get interested.

"Your father had any number of friends, and of course we didn't know them all.

Well, it is curious, I must say.

But she didn't say you were like your father, did she ?" "No--my mother," replied Austin.