It's you who are wild in your head, but I can understand just how it happened.

Being shut in that Home most of your life, and seeing children every day whose parents did neglect and desert them, makes you sure yours did the same; and yet there are so many other things that could have happened so much more easily than that.

There are thousands of young couples who come to this country and start a family with none of their relatives here.

Chicago is a big, wicked city, and grown people could disappear in many ways, and who would there ever be to find to whom their little children belonged?
The minute my father told me how you felt, I began to study this thing over, and I've made up my mind you are dead wrong.

I meant to ask my father or the Bird Woman to talk to you before you went away to school, but as matters are right now I guess I'll just do it myself.