"We fed and clothed and did everything for you, and now's your chance of returning some of it." Then her mood changed, and she wept and moaned, and clung to the girl passionately.
"Don't you leave me!" she pleaded, hysterically; "don't you go and turn your back on me, too.

You was mine before you was hers," nodding her head towards Mrs.Perry.
Her clinging to Huldah was more than a passing fancy, as they found, when they tried to get her to go into a home where she could have had rest and change and food and nursing.

She sobbed and pleaded, then flatly refused to go, unless Huldah went too.
"She's the only one in the world I know," she cried.

"Don't send me away with strangers, they'll all look down on me, and--and I--no, I couldn't bear it.

I won't go, I won't, I won't! I'll go off on the tramp again, where none of you will ever find me, and I won't ever bother any of you any more." At last Huldah went with tears in her eyes to Miss Carew.