When the child is needed, I will see that she is forthcoming.

Trust me for that.

I never was foiled yet in any thing that I set about accomplishing, and I will not suffer myself to be foiled here." With this understanding, Jasper and the lawyer parted.
A week or more passed, during which time Claire heard nothing from the guardian of Fanny; and both he and his wife began to hope that no further attempt to get her into his possession would be made, until the child had reached her twelfth year.
It was in the summer-time, and Mrs.Claire sat, late in the afternoon of a pleasant day, at one of the front-windows of her dwelling, holding her youngest child in her arms.
"The children are late in coming home from school," said she, speaking aloud her thought.

"I wonder what keeps them!" And she leaned out of the window, and looked for some time earnestly down the street.
But the children were not in sight.

For some five or ten minutes Mrs.
Claire played with and talked to the child in her arms; then she bent from the window again, gazing first up and then down the street.
"That's Edie, as I live!" she exclaimed.