“Their hearts must be husks, ” he sneered inwardly, as he observed the antics of the young parents around him, “shrivelled by the demands of these mewling offspring! ”
Scarlett tucked the baby more securely under her arm so that he hung face downward, crimson and screaming, and removed the garnet earrings which had been Gerald's wedding present to Ellen.
She took the girls and Hannah to a cold, miserable little room in an old building, where they found a sick mother, a crying baby, and a group of children with white, frightened faces.