“Go on from the time you left your cousin’s.”
Molly thought a minute and proceeded.
“I looked in all the papers to find some one who wanted a baby––” 39
“So you gave him away? Well, that’s easy to overcome. You couldn’t give my baby away, you know.”
“No, no, indeed! I didn’t give him away.... I boarded him out and saved money to pay for him. I even took summer boarders. The woman who had him––”
Molly’s long wait prompted the man once more.
“Well?” he said again. “The woman what?”
“The woman began to love the baby very much, and she wasn’t very poor, and didn’t need the money. Lots of times I went with it to her, and she wouldn’t take it.”
A thought connected with her story made Molly bury her face in her hands. The man touched her.
“Go on,” he said slowly. “Go on. And then?”