"I will take him into my own room, nurse, for a little while--you have had him all the morning," she said; as though the "having baby" was a privilege over which there might almost be a quarrel.

Then she took her boy away with her, and when she was alone with him, went through such a service in baby-worship as most mothers will understand.

Divide these two! No; nobody should do that.

Sooner than that, she, the mother, would consent to be no more than a servant in her husband's house.

Was not her baby all the world to her?
On the evening of that day the husband and wife had an interview together in the library, which, unfortunately, was as unsatisfactory as Lady Milborough's visit.