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Yet they had always been together -- '' `` It seemed to me aping a style really above what she had been used , a certain pretentiousness , that did not appear suitable to her position , but she has proved a devoted nurse and daughter , and I will confess my prejudice has received a great shock , and I admit frankly that I may have been mistaken when I accused her of being at the Clairvoyant 's . Miss Arran will you tell the story -- it seems a deathbed confession . '' Miss Arran began . She had started to go in Mrs. Boyd 's room to see if anything was needed when the words arrested her , and she detailed the journey Mrs. Boyd had undertaken with her infant child , the dreadful midnight disaster , the unconsciousness of the poor woman until the next day , her hearing the child cry and claiming it unwittingly , and then learning the child 's mother had been killed as well as her own baby and her resolve to keep it ; her taking it on her farther journey , and caring for it as her own , her latent remorse lest she should have defrauded the girl out of a better birthright -- Mrs. Barrington rose suddenly and paced the room in strange agitation . `` Somewhere I have heard a story that might be the other side of this . It is very strange , '' clasping her hands . `` One would not want to make a mistake . ''