As if she found the light oppressive, she moved the lamp farther back, so that her face was completely in the shade.
"You lived in England; you were brought up there ?" she said, still in the same impassive voice.
"Yes," said Derrick.

"I lived in London, with my guardian--with the people who took care of me--until they died.

Then I went to a place in the country, a quiet place where I could study with less interruption than one gets in London." "You were all alone--I mean, you had no relatives ?" asked Donna Elvira.
"No," said Derrick, gravely; and, after a pause, he added: "You will think this strange, too, senora--I know nothing, literally nothing, of my family.

It is just possible that I have no relations.

There are such cases.