He feared that Edith was losing her mind, she looked and spoke so wildly.
"A puny, half-starved, half-frozen little thing, in the arms of a drunken beggar," she added.

"And, doctor, an awful thought has haunted me ever since." "Hush, hush!" said the doctor, who saw what was in her mind.

"You must not indulge such morbid fancies." "It is that I may not indulge them that I have come to you.

I want certainty, Dr.Radcliffe.Somebody knows all about my baby.

Who was my nurse ?" "I never saw her before the night of your baby's birth, and have never seen her since.