"Yes," she said, "I put a small advertisement in the paper. It is so fortunate that Mrs. Mercer should have had an uncommon name like Anketell. One could feel practically sure that there would not be more than one Louisa Kezia Anketell, or at least not more than one in the same generation. These peculiar names generally run in a family. My own second name is Hephzibah - most unsuitable with Maud, but there has been a Hephzibah in our family for at least two hundred years."
(from The Case is Closed, by Patricia Wentworth)
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