“I did not then know that I had,” said Lightwood, discomposed on her account. “I believed that I had only heard of— Mr. Rokesmith.” With an emphasis on the name.
“When Mr. Lightwood saw me, my love,” observed her husband, not avoiding his eye, but looking at him, “my name was Julius Handford.”
Julius Handford! The name that Bella had so often seen in old newspapers, when she was an inmate of Mr. Boffin’s house! Julius Handford, who had been publicly entreated to appear, and for intelligence of whom a reward had been publicly offered!