There is no doubt of that," said the doctor, with sudden earnestness of manner.
"Have you any evidence of the fact ?" "My dear, dear child," answered the doctor, with much feeling, "it is all wrong.

Why go back over this unhappy ground?
why torture yourself for nothing?
Your baby died long ago, and is in heaven." "Would God I could believe it!" she exclaimed, in strong agitation.

"If it were so, why is not the evidence set before me?
I question my mother; I ask for the nurse who was with me when my baby was born, and for the nurse to whom it was given afterward, and am told that they are dead or out of the country.

I ask for my baby's grave, but it cannot be found.
I have searched for it where my mother told me it was, but the grave is not there.

Why all this hiding and mystery?
Doctor, you said that my baby was in heaven, and I answered, 'Would God it were so!' for I saw a baby in hell not long ago!" The doctor was scared.