She would be faithful to the trust, and folding him in her arms, she cried softly over him, kissing his little face and calling him her darling.
"Anna, how can you fondle such as he ?" Eudora asked, rather sharply.
"He is our brother's child.

Mother, you will not turn from your grandson," and Anna held the boy toward her mother, who did not refuse to take him.
Asenath always went with her mother, and at once showed signs of relenting by laying her hand on Willie's head and calling him "poor boy." Eudora held out longer, but Anna knew she would yield in time, and satisfied with Willie's reception so far, went on to speak of Adah.
Where was she, did they suppose, and what were the best means of finding her.
At this Mrs.Richards demurred, as did Asenath with her.
"Adah was gone, and they had better let her go quietly.

She was nothing to them, nothing whatever, and if they took Willie in, doing their best with him as one of the Richards' line, it was all that could be required of them.

Had Adah been John's wife, it would of course be different, but she was not, and his marriage with 'Lina must not now be prevented." This was Mrs.Richards' reasoning, but Anna's was different.
"John had distinctly said, 'I married Lily and she died.' Adah was mistaken about the marriage being unlawful.

It was a falsehood he told her.