Dodo smiled a superior smile; "I certify the milk," said she.
"Can you take care of the child and the house, too?"
"Bless you, Morton, 'the care' of a seven-room flat and a competent servant does not take more than an hour a day. And I market while I'm out with the baby.
"Do you mean to say you are going to push the perambulator yourself?"
"Why not?" she asked a little sharply, "surely a mother need not be ashamed of the company of her own child."
"But you'll be taken for a nurse—"
"I am a nurse! And proud of it!"
I gazed at her in my third access of deep amazement. "Do you mean to say that you took lessons in child culture, too?"
"Too? Why, I took lessons in child culture first of all. How often must I tell you, Morton, that I always intended to be married! Being married involves, to my mind, motherhood, that is what it is for! So naturally I prepared myself for the work I meant to do. I am a business woman, Morton, and this is my business."
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