"Who is this girl ?" she asked coldly.
"Lucy Lugur, the schoolmaster's daughter." "Could you not take her own mother ?" "Lucy has no mother.

Her father has been father and mother both to her since she was two years old.

He loves her beyond everything." "I can believe that.

I know a little of Ralph Lugur.

He has been to see me twice about the children of the village." "He has them all at his beck and call.