I could see them the whole time.”

She looked past me immediately.

“Are they inside?”

“Yes.”

She came in at my invitation and went straight to the babies.

She touched a blanket, checked a face, and spoke softly to one of them before looking at me again.

They had not been abandoned without a caregiver.

She had remained near the drive, but that did not undo the fear of opening my door to infants with no explanation.