But I knew better.

And I knew what you were thinking then.

Shall I tell you ?" As her eyes were still cast down, although her mouth was still smiling, in his endeavors to look into them his face was quite near hers.

He fancied that it bore the look she had worn once before.
"You were thinking," he said in a voice which had grown suddenly quite hesitating and tremulous,--he did not know why,--"that the poor little baby was quite friendless and alone.

You were pitying it--you know you were--because there was no one to give it the loving care that was its due, and because it was intrusted to that hired nurse in that great hotel.