Sentence:  ... I will not send Owen's Lily <WSD>May</WSD> to the almshouse." "Lily―"what"?" demanded Mrs. Morley rather sharply, for she was half provoked with what she mentally called Amy's whim of keeping the outcast child when she might send it to the asylum. "Lily <WSD>May</WSD>," said Amy, smiling. "Her name is Mary, and we called her first Little Mary, and then Little <WSD>May</WSD>. But Owen calls her Lily <WSD>May</WSD>." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=English), pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning.