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She had taken the room as `` Mrs. Emerton . '' The landlady , Mrs. Rotch , had had her doubts . But then she was liberal-minded -- folks had to be in that street . Still , she made it an invariable rule that `` no visitors was never allowed in rooms , '' a parlor being kept for the purpose up to ten o'clock , when the landlady went to bed in it , `` her having to have her sleep as well as anybody . '' But , in spite of the rules , a visitor had come to `` Mrs. Emerton 's '' room -- a very , very young man . His only name as yet was `` the Baby . '' She dared not give the young man his father 's name , for then people would know , and she had come to the city to keep people from knowing .