lived. Coming back here of course revived her memories of her love affair. Besides that, she saw Walter one day on the street, without his noticing her. That was before the nurse went to her, but she told of it. The nurse's theory is that the woman had regretted, after Walter's breaking off with her, that she had not had a child, and the sight of him renewed that regret. She was getting weaker and less responsible mentally all the time. Later she saw this newsboy and was struck by his resemblance to Walter, and her drug-crazed brain, the nurse thinks, suggested all the rest."
Peewee twisted his small body on the windowsill, perplexed.
"Suggested what?" This was Jeffrey's voice.
"That he was the child whom she wishçd to have. The police report, which could give no other parents for the boy, did not contradict her hallucination. Subsequently her insanity supplied the circumstances necessary to account for her separation from him. That is the nurse's theory."
