She came home from marketing one morning, quite pale, and could hardly speak when she entered Von Rosen's study.
"There's an outlandish young man around here," said she, "and you had better keep that baby close." Von Rosen laughed.

"Those people are always about," he said.

"You have no reason to be nervous, Jane.

There is hardly a chance he has anything to do with the baby, and in any case, he would not be likely to burden himself with the care of it." "Don't you be too sure," said Jane stoutly, "a baby like that!" Jane, much against her wishes, was obliged to go out that afternoon, and Von Rosen was left alone with the baby with the exception of a little nurse girl who had taken the place of Mrs.Bestwick.Then it was that the Syrian man, he was no more than a boy, came.

Von Rosen did not at first suspect.