"From the spring in the wood."
"And how far have you to go?"
"About a quarter of an hour's walk."
The man stopped for a moment, and then suddenly said,—
"Then you have not a mother?"
"I do not know," the child answered.
Before the man had time to speak, she continued,—
"I do not think so; other girls have one, but I have not."
And after a silence, she added,—
"I believe that I never had one."