[Pretending to be a little shocked.] Don’t be naughty, John. It’s for poor Annie Black’s baby.
John.
Who’s she?
Mrs. Wharton.
She was engaged to Edward Driffield, the carpenter’s second man, and they were going to be married next time he came home on leave. He’s been killed, and she’s expecting a baby.
John.
Poor thing.
Mrs. Wharton.
The Pooles are looking after her. You see, she had nowhere to go, and they didn’t want her to have to go to the Workhouse, so Mrs. Poole has taken her in at the Vicarage. And I said I’d make all the baby’s things.
John.