"You might come and take the other children home with you—all but the baby."
"I can just as well have her too."
"I would rather have her there; her mother needs her."
"Yes, I suppose you don't want Mabel in the room while the operation is going on."
"I don't want her there at all. She's of no use."
"Poor thing!"
"She can't help it."
"Could I do anything there? If I can, Jenny will take the children, I know."
"No, there's no need of that." The doctor threw out his sentences between mouthfuls of food automatically taken from a plate replenished by his wife.
"What nurse have they?"