I couldn't wait to hear no more till I'd got her baby at my own breast.
"That was the first time I suckled little Mary, ma'am.

She wasn't a month old then, and oh, so weak and small! such a mite of a baby compared to mine! "You may be sure, sir, that I asked the young woman lots of questions, while I was sitting side by side with her.

She stared at me with a dazed look in her face, seemingly quite stupefied by weariness or grief, or both together.

Sometimes she give me an answer and sometimes she wouldn't.

She was very secret.