What was I to do with the baby?
I can remember how the great drops of anguish stood on my face, how my hands trembled, how my very heart went cold with dread.
"The newspapers which I took daily, to read the advertisements for governesses, lay upon the table, and my eyes were caught by an advertisement from some woman living at Brighton, who undertook the bringing up of children.

I resolved to go down that very day.

I said nothing to my landlady of my intention.

I merely told her that I was going to place the little one in very good hands, and that I would return for my luggage.
"I meant--so truly as Heaven hears me speak--I meant to do right by the little child.

I meant to work hard to keep her in a nice home.