Number seven just like all the others.

I rang, I knocked; no one came.

I went down the area.

I am certain I saw some one inside--children--a cradle.
But no reply--no reply." She sighed, and looked straight in front of her with a glazed expression in her half-veiled blue eyes.
"I stood in the street," she resumed, "in case I could catch a sight of one of them.

It seemed a very long time.