"The nurse? Why she left long ago. I kept her only for the month."
"I mean the child's nurse," said I, "the fifteen dollar one."
"Oh—I'm the child's nurse," said Dodo.
"You!" said I. "Do you mean to say you take all the care of this child yourself?"
"Why, of course," said Dodo, "what's a mother for?"
"But—the time it takes," I protested, rather weakly.
"What do you expect me to do with my time, Morton?"
"Why, whatever you did before—This arrived."
"I will not have my son alluded to as 'This'!" said she severely. "Morton J. Hopkins, Jr., if you please. As to my time before? Why, I used it in preparing for time to come, of course. I have things ready for this youngster for three years ahead."
"How about the certified milk?" I asked.