It is a wicked, wicked thing to do.
'There is nothing else I can do,' said Mr.Shelby.

'I have sold everything I can think of, and at any rate now that Haley has set his heart on having Tom and Harry, he would not take anything or anybody instead.' Mrs.Shelby cried very much about it, but at last, though she was very, very unhappy she fell asleep.
But some one whom Mr.and Mrs.Shelby never thought of was listening to this talk.
Eliza was sitting in the next room.

The door was not quite closed, so she could not help hearing what was said.

As she listened she grew pale and cold and a terrible look of pain came into her face.
Eliza had had three dear little children, but two of them had died when they were tiny babies.

She loved and cared for Harry all the more because she had lost the others.