The fact that Jonas had always been very careful to treat me with much civility, caused this remark to make more impression on me.

I felt that he had, in a measure, reason for it.
The other idea was one which grew and developed in my mind until I afterward formed a plan upon it.

I determined, however, before I carried out my plan, to again try to reason with Euphemia.
"If it was our own baby," I said, "or even the child of one of us, by a former marriage, it would be a different thing; but to give yourself up so entirely to Pomona's baby, seems, to me, unreasonable.

Indeed, I never heard of any case exactly like it.

It is reversing all the usages of society for the mistress to take care of the servant's baby." "The usages of society are not worth much, sometimes," said Euphemia, "and you must remember that Pomona is a very different kind of a person from an ordinary servant.