I nearly had a chill."
"Didn't the child have a chill?"
"Not the slightest! If they get ahead of you with some pleasing little
trick like that you can console yourself with the thought that
generally there is some basis of old-time experience that has shown it
to be not so harmful as we are apt to think."
"I've done enough tenement house work to know that the babies certainly
survive extraordinary treatment, but these babies here are so delicate
that they ought to have the most careful diet. Most of them need real
nursing."
"Do you think your talks are making any impressions on the mothers?"
"Sometimes Mrs. Schuler and I think so, and just then it almost always
happens that one of them does something totally unexpected that gives
our hopes a terrible blow."
"Let's trust that this is a good day; I'd rather talk to you than work
over a case this fine afternoon."
Gertrude smiled at his tone and they walked on in silence out of the
wood and across the brook and down the lane that brought them to the
back of Rose House where the Club boys and girls were busy making a
piece of furniture of some sort.
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