“In spite of heat, and so can she.

“Is she more delicate than me?”

Incensed was Kate by this denial

After so promising a trial,

Nor would be beat, but firmly swore

To give more trouble than before.

That night again no wink she slept

But groaned and fretted, sighed and wept,

Upon her couch so tossed and turned,

The anxious mother quite concerned