Your father was not your father." "Oh, sir," exclaimed Winnifred.

"My poor mother! How she must have suffered!" "Your mother was not your mother," said the Old Lawyer gravely.

"Nay, nay, do not question me.

There is a dark secret about your birth." "Alas," said Winnifred, wringing her hands, "I am, then, alone in the world and penniless." "You are," said Mr.Bonehead, deeply moved.

"You are, unfortunately, thrown upon the world.