The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Truly, truly," said Madame Danglars, "all my linen is marked thus;
Monsieur de Nargonne was a baronet, and my name is Hermine. Thank God,
my child was not then dead!"

"No, it was not dead."

"And you can tell me so without fearing to make me die of joy? Where is
the child?" Villefort shrugged his shoulders. "Do I know?" said he; "and
do you believe that if I knew I would relate to you all its trials and
all its adventures as would a dramatist or a novel writer? Alas, no,
I know not. A woman, about six months after, came to claim it with the
other half of the napkin. This woman gave all the requisite particulars,
and it was intrusted to her."

"But you should have inquired for the woman; you should have traced
her."