And now, whenever he spoke of her, it was invariably and punctiliously as "my cousin." The baby too--Mrs.Campbell's truly feminine soul was exalted to infinte delight and pride at being employed by the earl to procure the most magnificent stock of baby clothes that Edinburg could supply.

No young heir to a peerage could be appareled more splendidly than was, within a few days, Helen's boy.

He was the admiration of the whole hotel; and when his mother made some weak resistance, she received a gentle message to the effect that the Earl of Cairnforth begged, as a special favor, to be allowed to do exactly as he liked with his little "cousin".
And every morning, punctual to the hour, the earl had himself taken up stairs into the infantile kingdom of which Mrs.Campbell was installed once more as head nurse, where he would sit watching with an amused curiosity, that was not without its pathos, the little creature so lately come into the world--to him, unfamiliar with babies, such a wondrous mystery.

Alas! A mystery which it was his lot to behold--as all the joys of life--from the outside.
But, though life's joys were forbidden him, its duties seemed to accumulate daily.

There was Mr.Cardross to be kept patient by the assurance that all was well, and that presently his daughter and his grandchild would be coming home.