A possible suggestion as to why she kept one child and not the other....I have a story of a woman who was widowed with twins. She met a widower who wanted to marry her but would only take one of the twins........she agreed, presumably hoping he would change his mind. (He didn't, the story ended tragically).
We can't know at this distance of course, but.......HOW could she have put Florence into Barnardo's on Christmas Eve???
OC
|