Tobias took the babe carefully and laid her against his chest. Emma was relaxed and did not protest, but quietly stared into the room from this new perspective. He rubbed her back and looked down at the little girl, the child he had wanted so badly, his daughter. But nothing was as he had hoped it would be. He had been so anxious about whether the child would live, that he still hardly felt like a father now. Alice still refused to even look at her baby. And they were anything but a happy family. He worried.

He looked up and tried to look happy. "She's much calmer now than before ye came."