"I did not know he had one.
Oh, I'm so glad.

And you'll be kind to me, who never had a mother ?" A person who never had a mother was an anomaly to Mrs.Worthington, whose powers of comprehension were not the clearest imaginable.
"Never had a mother!" she repeated.

"How can that be ?" A smile flitted for a moment across Adah's face, and then she answered: "I never knew a mother's care, I mean." "But your father?
What do you know of him ?" said Mrs.Worthington, and instantly a shadow stole into the sweet young face, as Adah replied: "Only this, I was left at a boarding school." "And Hugh?
Where did you meet him?
And what is he to you ?" "The only friend I've got.

May I see him, please ?" "First tell what he is to you and to this child," 'Lina rejoined.

Adah answered calmly: "Your brother might not like to be implicated.