"And her mother?"
Mrs. Stevens, who was busy sewing, answered:
"I know nothing of her mother."
"Have you never asked about her?"
"No."
"Has she never mentioned her mother's name?"
"She has not."
The girl was nearly always at the home of Mrs. Stevens, though she sometimes took strolls alone through the town.
The melancholy child attracted the attention of Good-wife Nurse, who asked her to her house and brought her a mug of fresh milk.
"Do you belong here?" asked Goody Nurse.