Always she found him with his great earnest eyes upon her.

There seemed at last to be a mutual fascination.

His eyes seemed never to move from her face; and when she tried to look away and get interested in other faces, almost unconsciously to herself her eyes would wander back, and she would find herself gazing at the child.
At eleven o'clock Mr.Paulding announced that the exercises for the morning would begin, when silence fell on the restless company of undisciplined children.

A hymn was read, and then, as the leader struck the tune, out leaped the voices of these four hundred children, each singing with a strange wild abandon, many of them swaying their heads and bodies in time to the measure.

As the first lines of the hymn, "Jesus, gentle Shepherd, lead us, Much we need thy tender care," swelled up from the lips of those poor neglected children, the eyes of Edith grew blind with tears.
After a prayer was offered up, familiar addresses, full of kindness and encouragement, were made to the children, interspersed with singing and other appropriate exercises.