“I scarcely know.”
“I mean do they concentrate on the child a long while before it comes.”
“Many smart women certainly don’t.”
“Oh, smart women! I mean women.”
“A good definition, dee-ar. Well, lots of poor women don’t concentrate on the child either. They have far too much to do and worry about. They are ‘seeing to’ things up till the very last moment.”
“Then we must rule them out. Let’s say the good women who have the time.”
“I expect a great many of them do, if the husband lets them.”
“Ah!” said Dion rather sharply.
“There are a few husbands, you see, who get fidgety directly the pedestal on which number one thinks himself firmly established begins to shake.”
“Stupid fools!”