But the girl insisted.
"Yes, ma'am; there was no man there at all.

I was on one of the park benches resting, with the baby in my arms, and this woman passed by and saw us.

She smiled at the baby's ways, and then stopped and took to talking about her,--how pretty she was and how little afraid of strangers.

I saw no harm in the woman, ma'am, and let her sit down on the same bench with me for a few minutes.

She must have pinned the paper on the baby's coat then, for it was the only time anybody was near enough to do it." Mrs.Packard, with an irrepressible gesture of anger or dismay, turned and walked back to the window.