"And Jacob?" she asked, nodding to the boy. "Should I take him home to me ma and da and then come back?" She didn't want to impose at all, that much was made clear by the question and by her worried expression. "I don't want him ta be a bother fer anyone." Not that he was a bother, she thought, for she loved the child more than life. She didn't want to leave Jacob with her parents either, not wanting them to think they were going to raise her child when she was going to do it on her own... somehow.