If you had seen how distressed she was, in this very room, you would also have felt compelled to do all within your power to reunite her with her poor infant child.’‘I am sure there must be some logical explanation for all this,’ said Ravenscroft, placing another log on the fire whilst attempting to lighten his wife’s anxiety.‘That is what I thought, but you have seen the letter. Twenty-two Suffolk Square, Montpelier, Cheltenham. Mrs Amelia Huddlestone. There is no other address it could be, and no one in the area has heard of the Huddlestones.’‘Then I think we must conclude that the woman Huddlestone gave a false name and address.’‘But why, Samuel? Why would she do that? I do not understand what she could gain by such deception.’ ‘You say that, according to Miss Corbett, this woman Huddlestone had just lost her own child and that that was the reason for her anxiety, and for her desire to look after the infant Lily. If that is the case, she may have given the false address and gone elsewhere in case the mother should later reappear and want her child back.
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