Miss Lee felt that she had gone far enough on that subject, so she changed it.
"Poor Mrs. Carrington! They feel very bad about children since they lost their little boy about a year ago."
"How did they lose him?"
"He died, and they have never recovered from the shock."
"If they lost their child, I should think they'd want to see other children happy, then. They must be queer people."
"It has changed them a great deal, as sorrow often does."
"It hasn't changed them the right way, as true sorrow does. What've they done?"
"Mrs. Carrington—she was Elsie Young before she married Robert Carrington—is a very beautiful woman, and she was wrapped up in her boy. But since his death she has given herself wholly to society, and they say—now of course I don't know how true it is, but they say—that she and her husband have grown apart since the child is gone. He kept them together, and now—well, she simply lives for amusement. And—now, of course I don't say it is true—but I do know that she is going to Europe in the summer and they say—that is the ladies who know her well—that it means a separation. She is going to get a divorce in Paris."
Drusilla put down the dress in her hand.
"You don't tell me! Just because she lost her baby! Why don't she have more? Lots of people have lost babies, but it ain't cause for divorce. It'd ought to bring 'em closer together."