"Why shouldn't it be? I feel that he's safe here. He's out of it. Things can't reach him."
"Bad news reached him to-day."
"Aggy—what?" Milly whispered in her fright.
"His sister is very anxious about her little girl."
"What's wrong?"
Agatha repeated what she had heard from Harding Powell.
"Oh——" Milly was dumb for an instant while she thought of her sister-in-law. Then she cried aloud.
"If the child dies it will make him ill again!"
"No Milly, it won't."
"It will, I tell you. It's always been that sort of thing that does it."