“Seven days old. I said what I could to Mrs. Trench. A terrible affair. What can one do?”

“Poor little mite.”

“What was it, Mrs. Haye?”

“Gastric pneumonia, I think, nurse. I am sure that Brodwell muddled the case.”

“To think of it!”

“Of course, Mrs. Haye, gastric pneumonia with a seven days’ child is very grave.”

“Was it a boy or a little girl’m?”

“A girl. How is he to-day, nurse?”

“Oh, I’m all right.”

“I think we are getting on very nicely, aren’t we?”