“Well, she seems to have an extraordinary sense of duty towards the child that’s coming. She thinks you might be less calm than she is.”
“But I’m perfectly calm.”
Doctor Mayson smiled.
“D’you know, it’s really ever so much better for us men to keep right out of the way in such moments as these. It’s the kindest thing we can do.”
“Very well. I’ll do it of course.”
“I never go near my own wife when she’s like this.”
Dion stared into the fire.
“Have you many children?”
“Eleven,” remarked the bass voice comfortably. “But I married very young, before I left Guy’s. Now I’ll go up again. You needn’t be the least alarmed.”
“I’m not,” said Dion bruskly.