human
Whose likeness is this?
gpt
Do you not recognize it as a photograph of a certain picture in the gallery at Broome, with which you are doubtless well acquainted?
human
Aye, aye, to be sure, I know it now, he said; and yet there was an echo of doubt in his tone.
gpt
It's a likeness of Miss Elinor Pengarvon, who lived eighty or ninety years syne, and was engaged to Lord Doverley, but died a week afore her wedding-day. I mind me of the picture well. But--but how did you come by it?
human
It is time to undeceive you, said Clement.
gpt
The likeness in your hands is not that of the Elinor Pengarvon of ninety years ago, but of another young lady who is alive and well at this moment. It is the portrait of Miss Hermia Rivers.