[Out of the boot he draws an infant's bottle, topped by a rubber nipple and half filled with milk.
MRS. JOHN
That's easily explained. I was up there settin' things to rights an' I had little Adelbert along with me. But I don' know nothin' about the rest.
HASSENREUTER
Nobody has undertaken to assert that you do, Mrs. John.
MRS. JOHN
When you considers how my little Adelbert came into the world … an' when you considers how he died … nobody c'n come an' tell me nothin' about bein' a reel mother … But I gotta leave now, sir … I can't be comin' up here for two three days. Good-bye! I has to go to my sister-in-law an' let Adelbert enjoy the country air a little.
[She trots off through the door to the outer hall.
HASSENREUTER
Can you make anything of her wild talk?