We had, indeed, soon decided to keep the child we had found and to bring her up in the place of our lost darling; but who could tell us whether she had been baptized or not?
She herself could give us no information on the matter.

She generally answered our questions by saying that she well knew she was created for Gods praise and glory, and that she was ready to let us do with her whatever would tend to His honor and glory." "My wife and I thought that if she were not baptized, there was no time for delay, and that if she were, a good thing could not be repeated too often.

And in pursuance of this idea, we reflected upon a good name for the child, for we now were often at a loss to know what to call her.

We agreed at last that Dorothea would be the most suitable for her, for I once heard that it meant a gift of God, and she had surely been sent to us by God as a gift and comfort in our misery.

She, on the other hand, would not hear of this, and told us that she thought she had been called Undine by her parents, and that Undine she wished still to be called.