They come up to me and call me mother.

I know what they will say--"how are you, mother ?" I ought to say, "I am not your mother, in any sense." But what is the use?
There they are.

I have had children of my own.

I suppose I know them from another woman's children.' 'One would suppose so,' he said.
She looked at him, somewhat surprised, forgetting perhaps that she was talking to him.

And she lost her thread.
She looked round the room, vaguely.