He finds connections to both Lady Dedlock and the deceased Nemo, who has been identified as Captain James Hawdon, and is eventually alerted to the existence of letters left behind by Hawdon but kept by his drunken landlord, Krook. Realizing that Esther is her daughter whom she was told had died -- fathered by Hawdon before her current marriage -- Lady Dedlock confesses to Esther but swears her to secrecy.
Lady Dedlock
Esther