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 perhaps got the name wrong or something. Won’t you tell us all about it? You needn’t be frightened.

Thank you. I’m sorry if I upset you, I am, indeed. I didn’t mean to but when you know a thing like that, it isn’t in flesh and blood to keep it from his wife. It isn’t fair. I’m a married woman myself, and I know. It isn’t true what I said about my husband’s friend. I made that up, because I didn’t know how to tell you how to make you believe. But the rest is true, all true.



You see, I used to know Mr. Baldry fifteen years ago.



But we lost sight of each other. It’s fifteen years now since we met, and I hadn’t seen nor heard of him, nor thought to do again, till I got this a week ago. (She undoes her purse and takes out a telegram.) This telegram. He isn’t well he’s lost his memory and thinks  he thinks he still knows me. You’ll see, if you read it. (She hands the telegram to, who reads it.) You see, it’s addressed to Margaret Allington—that’s my maiden name, and I’ve been married these ten years. But he doesn’t know and it’s sent to my old home, where he used to know me  Monkey Island, down at Bray. Father