"Then, when he's had his bath, they'll be ready for him." He hurried down into a cab, and drove to Swan & Edgar's.

There he bought the finest little vests and petticoat and frocks and socks and coats they could find him.

On his way back with his purchases he remembered shoes, stopped the cab at the boot-maker's, and bought a dozen pairs.

When he came back to his rooms, followed by two waiters loaded with parcels, he heard a splashing in the bathroom, and when they had set down their loads and were gone, Selina came to him and said, "I should like you to come and look at him, sir." She had been crying.
Sir Tancred went into the bathroom, and found Hildebrand Anne splashing in the bath: "Hallo, Tinker," he said cheerfully, and turned sick at the sight of the wales and bruises about the thin little body.
"Look at that, sir," said Selina fiercely; and she touched the worst of them.
The child winced at her touch, gentle as it was, and said in his quaint, thin voice, "Halbut did do that.

Mine not like Halbut.