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`` I spare you the details of our conversation to come to the end . Mr. Midwinter put the matter very delicately , declaring , to my great surprise , that he felt quite certain himself that I was not the Miss Gwilt of whom his friend was in search ; and that he only acted as he did out of regard to the anxiety of a person whose wishes he was bound to respect . Would I assist him in setting that anxiety completely at rest , as far as I was concerned , by kindly answering one plain question -- which he had no other right to ask me than the right my indulgence might give him ? The lost ` Miss Gwilt ' had been missed on Monday last , at two o'clock , in the crowd on the platform of the North-western Railway , in Euston Square . Would I authorize him to say that on that day , and at that hour , the Miss Gwilt who was Major Milroy 's governess had never been near the place ? `` I need hardly tell you that I seized the fine opportunity he had given me of disarming all future suspicion . I took a high tone on the spot , and met him with the old lady 's letter .