"I truly intended to come straight back, but I thought I could rock Billy to sleep first.

Everything is strange, and he's so nervous." "Is that your ma ?" demanded Billy.
"Yes." "Does she love you ?" "Of course!" "My mother didn't love me," said Billy.

"She went away and left me, and never came back.

She don't care what happens to me.

You wouldn't go away and leave your little girl, would you ?" questioned Billy.
"No," said Katharine Comstock, "and I wouldn't leave a little boy, either." Billy began sliding from Elnora's knees.
"Do you like boys ?" he questioned.
"If there is anything I love it is a boy," said Mrs.Comstock assuringly.