"Is oo mawwied to him?" asked the child, innocently.
"If we only were," said Ralph to himself, perhaps not intended to be in so low a tone as not to reach the desired quarter.
"Do oo weally want to be?" questioned the child, of Ralph, who had drawn her onto his knee.
"Did you come alone?" was the irrelevant answer.
"'Es; I'se not afwaid. I tan thee my houth fwom here."
"Our rector, Mr. Bayne, is her father," explained Adelina. "We are the greatest of friends," she added.
"Who? You and Mr. Bayne?" asked Ralph.
"No, the child, of course."
Pet, not caring to be excluded from the conversation, and feeling a monopoly unfair, persisted in obtaining a solution to the subject uppermost in her baby mind.