I have never for a moment had the idea of keeping it back from you.

But because of baby, and because baby had to be born, I delayed it.' This was an excuse which, as the mother of her child, she could not but accept with thankfulness.
'I think I will ask him,' she said that night, referring again to the vexed question of godfathers.

Uncle Babington had some weeks since very generously offered his services, and, of course, they had been generously accepted.

Among the baby's relations he was the man of highest standing in the world; and then this was a mark of absolute forgiveness in reference to the wrongs of poor Julia.

And a long letter had been prepared to Mrs.Bolton, written by Hester's own hand, not without much trouble, in which the baby's grandmother was urged to take upon herself the duties of godmother.