This is always my luck.

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as any of them.

Very unfeeling! I must say it is very unfeeling of him to be running away from his poor little boy.

Talks of his being going on so well! How does he know that he is going on well, or that there may not be a sudden change half an hour hence?
I did not think Charles would have been so unfeeling.

So here he is to go away and enjoy himself, and because I am the poor mother, I am not to be allowed to stir; and yet, I am sure, I am more unfit than anybody else to be about the child.