“Edwin,” said Molly, after the girls had gone, “I think I’ll send for Kizzie to come help me. I may put her in the kitchen and take Katy for a nurse.”
“Good! I am certainly glad you have come to that decision. What changed you?”
“Well, it seems to me that when it comes to the pass that my college girls feel so sorry for me they cut such lectures as yours to give the whole morning to cleaning up for me I must do something, and the only thing I can think of doing is to send for Kizzie.”
“Can you mix the black and white without coming to grief?”
“Remember, Katy is more green than white, and she is so good-natured, she could get along with anything.”
“I can’t tell you how relieved I am, honey. I wanted you to do what pleased you, but I could not see how I was coming in on this. I felt very lonesome, and while I wasn’t jealous of the baby, I was certainly envious of her. If Kizzie comes, you can be with me more and nurse me some.”
“Yes, dearie, I missed it, too, but somehow I couldn’t get through. If Katy had been more competent——”
“But she wasn’t and isn’t.”
“No, she certainly isn’t, but she adores Mildred already and Mildred actually cries for her. I believe she would make a fine nurse. If only she doesn’t feel called upon to scrub the baby.”
Edwin laughed and, settling himself for a pleasant smoke, opened the morning paper, which neither he nor Molly had found time to read.