What was her husband's name?
After a second's hesitation she stupidly give the name Smith.

I can see the mouth of the Mother Superior as it set in a grim line.

'Very well,' said she, 'the child's name is Helene Smith'; and although the woman made a wry face she was forced to submit.
"The child remained there four years, and the Mother Superior had some reason to believe that 'Madame Dubois' spent a good part of that time in San Francisco.

She came at irregular intervals to see the child--always in vacation, when there were no pupils in the convent, and always at night.

The Mother Superior, however, thought it best to make no investigations, for the child throve, they were all daffy about her, and the money came promptly on the first of every month.