"Address to her maiden name—it would be sent after her," suggested Rosamond.
"But Gladdie is not sure what that is," replied Auntie, half laughing. "She doesn't know if it is 'Lacy,' or if she had a different name from her aunt. She is such a baby in some ways. I am sure she has not the slightest idea what our surnames are. You are 'Rosamond' and I am 'Auntie.'"
"Or 'Madame' when she speaks of you to the servants. She is getting on so nicely with her French, Auntie. That reminds me Louis has been to the Rue Verte, and has brought back word that Madame Nestor is much better, and would be so delighted to see the children any day we can send them."
"Or take them," said Auntie. "I would not like them to go without us the first time, for fear they should feel at all frightened. And yet it is right for them to go. They must always be grateful to Madame Nestor, who did her very best for them."
"Gladys confided to me she would be a little afraid of going back, though she knows that Anna is no longer there. But she says she will feel as if they were going back to stay there, and as if this would turn out to be only a beautiful dream."
"Poor little dear," said Auntie.
"And she's going to take her new doll—both to show her off, and that she may feel she isn't a dream! She has such funny ideas sometimes. Auntie——"
"What, dear?"
"If Walter can't find the father—I suppose I should say if he is dead—what is to be done?"
"We must find out all we can—through that Miss Susan, I suppose—as to who are the children's guardians, and what money they have, and all about it."