HOL. What is it, then?
FLE. (_reading._) "My child--my child! Yes--I--your father! Not a
minute during the twenty long years which have separated us, have I
ceased to think of the day when I should be enabled to press you to my
heart."
HOL. I beg your pardon; I was mistaken. "Yes, your father! Not a
minute during the twenty long years which----" What comes next?
FLE. "During the twenty long years which have separated us have I
ceased to think----"
HOL. "Not a minute during the twenty long years which----" No father,
on finding his daughter, would make use of such an expression.