It was with his consent that she asked the nuns to take the child--possibly for two or three years.

When she was a famous actress and could leave the road, she would keep house for her husband in New York, and make a home for the child.
"The Mother Superior, by this time, had made up her mind that the father wished the child removed from the mother's influence, and although she took the whole yarn with a bag of salt, the child was the most beautiful she had ever seen, and obviously healthy and amiable.

Moreover, the convent was to receive two hundred dollars a month--" "What ?" "Exactly.

Can you beat it?
The Mother Superior made up her mind it was her duty to bring up the little thing in the way it should go.

As the woman was leaving she said something about a possible reconciliation with her family, who lived in France; they had not written her since she went on the stage.