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'Gretchen, he calls it, he said; and then Jerry, who was listening intently, gave a sudden upward and sidewise turn to her Lead, just as she had done when Mr. Tracy spoke to her of Wiesbaden. 'Detchen, she repeated, with a little hesitancy. 'Vat the name vas? Say again.
'This is our grandchild, he will say, nodding to the space beside him, while little Gretchen nods too, as if she also saw a figure sitting there. 'Our grandchild and Jerrie's baby, and you are its grandmother. Grandma Gretchen! That's funny; and then he laughs, and baby laughs, and says after him, lispingly, 'Danma Detchen, that's funny.
Detchen, Detchen, where are you? and she noticed that the doll baby with which Jerry played the most was ever after called 'Detchen, instead of Maude, as it had been christened when first given to her.
He said it again, and over the child's face there came a puzzled expression, as if she were trying to recall something which baffled all her efforts. But she did not forget the name, and that evening Mrs. Crawford heard her singing to herself, 'Detchen, Detchen, who are you?
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