"Sent for the doctor! I've to get my husband's supper."
Esther took her baby out of the cradle. It woke up crying, and Esther said, "You don't mind my sitting down a moment. The poor little thing wants its mother."
"If Mrs. Rivers saw you now a-nursing of yer baby?"
"I shouldn't care if she did. He's thinner than when I left him; ten days 'ave made a difference in him."
"Well, yer don't expect a child to do as well without its mother as with her. But tell me, how did yer get out? You must have come away shortly after me."
"I wasn't going to stop there and my child ill."
"Yer don't mean to tell me that yer 'ave gone and thrown hup the situation?"
"She told me if I went out, I should never enter her door again."
"And what did you say?"
"Told her I didn't want to."