I am going abroad, but I leave Dr.Letsom as the guardian of the child; apply to him for everything you want, as you will not be able to communicate with me." He watched her as she took the child in her arms.

He was satisfied when he saw the light that came into her face: he knew that little Madaline would be well cared for.

He placed a bank note for fifty pounds in the woman's hands.
"Buy all that is needful for the little one," he said.
In all things Margaret Dornham promised obedience.

One would have thought she had found a great treasure.

To her kindly, womanly heart, the fact that she once more held a little child in her arms was a source of the purest happiness The only drawback was when she reached home, and her husband laughed coarsely at the sad little story.
"You have done a good day's work, Maggie," he said; "now I shall expect you to keep me, and I shall take it easy." He kept his word, and from that day made no further effort to earn any money.
"Maggie had enough for both," he said--"for both of them and that bit of a child." Faithful, patient Margaret never complained, and not even Dr.Letsom knew how the suffering of her daily life had increased even though she was comforted by the love of the little child..