When I put out my arm she let me take her and sit her on my knee.

She kissed me with her soft mouth.

We were happy till the nurse-girl came and shook her, and asked her if she was not ashamed to sit on the knee of that strange man.

But I do not think my little one minded.

She laughed at me as she went out.
"If the world was all children I could like it; but men and women draw me so strangely, and then press me away, till I am in agony.