The old arguments held good.

She appealed to Antoinette for advice.
The result we know.

When Antoinette's own child died at birth, she took Ermentrude's to her heart and brought it up as her own.

There was little difficulty in this, as the Professor had already yielded to a Southern fever and lay at rest in a New Orleans cemetery.
And this brings us to another episode.
* * * * * The widow in fact and the widow in heart stood face to face above a sleeping infant.

They were both dressed for traveling and so was the babe.