The turmoil of her discovery filled her too completely to admit a full-grown affection; but she thrilled with the sense of the vast difference between her supposed father and this her real father.
In the meantime her father had spoken.

Joe would have been more reserved with men or with older women; but with this girl, so much the sort of girl he had long dreamed about, his reserve vanished without resistance, and in its place was a desire to talk to this beautiful creature who came out of the world which the big white house represented.
"I have a daughter, yes," he said.

"But Larry--Mr.Brainard perhaps I should say--has likely told you all there is to tell." "I'd like to hear it from you, please--if you don't mind." "There's really not much to tell," he said.

"You know what I was and what happened.

When I went to prison my daughter was too young to remember me--less than two years old.