Abandoned child

"Then one particular night when my head was full of numbers, Old John, God, language problems and all the odd bits and pieces of puzzlement, out of the fog a small girl suddenly appeared."
"There was not much I could see of her in the fog even by a gas lamp. She was not very tall. She told me she had 'runned away' and she carried an old rag doll, a box of paints and she was hungry. She made a large hole in my bag of saveloys and she liked fizzy drinks, particularly the ones with a marble in the neck."
"A couple of necessary fags to regain my composure and I learned that her name was Anna, that she was going to live with me and that she loved me as I loved her. I never was one to get into an argument that I had no hope of winning, so I simple accepted all that she had told me."
"As time went by I did try to find out more about her background, but nobody had missed her, or if they had, they did not want her back. So she came home with me and stayed until she died a few years later…"
(Fynn in 'Anna and the Black Knight,' p. 84 Harper)