And Grace Abergavenny said: “Because by then I was the one in the house with her.

“I’d worked out that if I walked, somebody else would come and do it, and I did not know who, and I did know that I was feeding her properly and reading to her at night and that she was not frightened of me.

“And I told myself that made me the best thing available to that child, and I am aware that this is exactly what a person says, and I said it to myself every day for four months.”

She was asked, at the end of the second day, who was paying her.