He can get warm, and a little of thet candy won't do him no harm, nuther." Mrs.Mann used the masculine pronoun from force of habit; all her children with the exception of Gladys were boys.
Maria hesitated.

She had a certain scorn for the Manns.

She eyed Mrs.
Mann's dirty attire and face.

But she was in fact cold, and the smell of the candy was entrancing.

"She said never to take the baby in anywhere," said she, doubtfully.
Josephine having tired of chocolate, realized suddenly an enormous hunger for molasses candy.