That may be, but I can see no reason for her returning here unless he died more recently and the settlement of his estate demanded her presence." "Pretty good reasoning, particularly if you are sure she stayed here until the child was five.

Some of them have pretty decent instincts.

She may have made up her mind to give the kid a chance, and returned to her relations.

Of course we must assume that they knew nothing of her life." "I am positive they did not.

But there had been some sort of estrangement.