Sentence:  Dowie could scarcely have told what phrase or word at last suddenly brought up before her a picture of the nursery in the house in Mayfair—the feeling of a warm soft childish body pressed close to her knee, the look of a tender, <WSD>dewy-eyed</WSD> small face and the sound of a small yearning voice saying: "I want to "kiss" you, Dowie." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.