Elijah nodded to her, still having to use both hands to cradle the baby. He didn't know well enough how to hold him and shake with his free hand. "Yes.. M-miss... er.. M-ma'am? He was left on my doorstep. He is so little, I do not want him to grow up in a cold orphanage if at all possible. But I am just a single man, I can not care for him myself."