"You have lived here so long that you know the place and every one in it, I have been thinking so much of my little one.

It would be absurd for me to take her to Italy; and as, for my father's sake, I intend to keep my marriage a secret for some time longer, I cannot send her to any of my own relatives or friends.

I think the best plan will be for you to find some healthy, sensible woman, who would be nurse and foster-mother to her." "That can easily be managed," remarked Stephen Letsom.
"Then you will have both child and nurse entirely under your own control.

You can superintend all arrangements made for the little one's benefit.

I have thought of offering to send you five hundred per annum, from which you can pay what you think proper for the child.