Am I right, so far ?" "Quite right." "The woman carried matters with a high hand.

She claimed Colonel Roseberry--I wish to be strictly accurate--she claimed _the late_ Colonel Roseberry as her father.

She told a tiresome story about her having been robbed of her papers and her name by an impostor who had personated her.

She said the name of the impostor was Mercy Merrick.

And she afterward put the climax to it all: she pointed to the lady who is engaged to be my wife, and declared that _she_ was Mercy Merrick.