At this realization, Mrs. Cain completely broke down.
"How could this be? It wasn't supposed to be like this! Those are my children! Those were supposed to be my children! They stole my children!"
The thought that the two children who should have been born into her family had been cruelly snatched away, becoming someone else's, made Mrs. Cain feel as if a tightly wound string in her mind had finally snapped. She wished she could storm over to her brother-in-law's house right this instant, demand her children back, and make them pay in blood for the child she had so tragically lost!
