"I think she could not have hidden it from me."
"Did she ever hide anything else?"
"Never."
"Does she know the parents of the child?"
"Yes, but she will not even let me question her about them."
"Does she deny the child is hers?"
"No one has ever dared to ask her."
"Not even you?"
Thereupon I related in a few words what I knew, and what I believed, and finished by saying: "I can find no proof for or against Brulette; but, for the life of me, I cannot doubt her."
"Nor I either!" said Huriel, and kissing Charlot, he set him on the floor.