He did not speak a word.
"Mrs.Haddon said something more," Phyllis continued, after a pause.

Her voice had fallen still another tone.

"'Yes,' she said, as if musing, 'dead--dead! A man is as his mother has made him.

He is with her from the moment she loves his father.

She is evermore thinking of him; he is precious to her before the mystery of his birth is revealed to her.
He grows up by her side, and loves her because he knows that she understands him.