Mrs.Kane may take her, unless the gentlemen do something for her." "Mr.Enderby will never allow her to go back to poor Anne Kane," said the housekeeper.

"There's many a cheap way of providing for a friendless child, and it wouldn't be fair to put her on a woman that can hardly keep her own little home together." Hetty's anguish was unspeakable as these words sank into her heart, each one making a wound.

She shuddered at the thought of going back to Mrs.
Kane, but felt even more horror of those unknown "cheap ways of providing for a friendless child," alluded to by the housekeeper.

A perfect sea of tribulation rolled over her head as she bent it in despair, and wept forlornly on Scamp's comfortable neck.
In the meantime, as Hetty surmised, her fate was being decided upstairs.
No provision had been made by Mrs.Rushton for the child whom she had taken into her home, petted and indulged, and accustomed to every luxury.

The relations of Mrs.Rushton's late husband, who lived at a great distance and had not been on intimate terms with her, were not much impressed by the lady's carelessness of Hetty.