The doll was evidently not new, and she had not the same anxiety with regard to that.
No one was allowed to ask Ellen further questions that day, not even the reporters, who went away quite baffled by this infantile pertinacity in silence, and were forced to draw upon their imaginations, with results varying from realistic horrors to Alice in Wonderland.

Ellen was kissed and cuddled by some women and young girls, but not many were allowed to see her.

The doctor had been called in after her fainting-fit, and pronounced it as his opinion that she was a very nervous child, and had been under a severe strain, and he would not answer for the result if she were to be further excited.
"Let her have her own way: if she wants to talk, let her, and if she wants to be silent, let her alone.

She is as delicate as that cup," said the doctor, looking at the shell-like thing which Ellen had brought home, with some curiosity..