She was one of three children and the only one who has survived; her sister, who was her twin, died when she was a small child, and a brother some five years ago.

Her fortune was willed her, as I have already told you, by a great-uncle.

It is entirely in her own hands.

Left an orphan early, she lived first with her brother; then when he died, with one relative after another, till lastly she settled down with the Fultons.

I know of no secret in her life, no entanglement, not even of any prior engagements.