"What ails you, Nora Mulvey ?" she demanded.

"Why aren't you 'tending to this poor little creature ?" Nora sprang into action, but she wrapped the baby herself.

The doctor in deep embarrassment withdrew to the farther window.

She fussed over the baby lingeringly, but finally resigned it to the nurse.

"Take it into the bathroom," she said, "where everything's ready to feed it--though I never dreamed----" As Nora was about to depart, she detained her.