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Updated: May 17, 2025
I have been puzzling over it all the morning. I have no recollection of coming." "You understand, I fancy," rejoined my uncle, "that one of the family has a notion she can take better care of you than anybody else! Is not that enough to account for it?" "Hardly, sir. Belorba cannot have gone and rescued me from my mother!" "How do you know that? Belorba is a terrible creature when she is roused.
"Don't be silly, Belorba!" cried Martha, almost severely. "You an engaged young lady, and tied so to your uncle's apron-strings that you cry the minute he's out of your sight! You didn't cry when Mr. Day left you!" "No," I answered; "he was going only for a day or two!" "And for how many is your uncle gone?" "That is what I want to know. He means to be away a long time, I fear."
"But did anybody ever hate the person that couldn't do without her, Orbie?" My name suggested by my uncle because my mother died at my birth was a curious one; I believe he made it himself. Belorba it was, and it means Fair Orphan. "I don't know, Martha," I replied. "Well, you watch and see!" she returned.
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