Nurse says I did ask him once why he didn't love me like other papas loved their little girls.

But I was very little then, and I don't remember it at all.

But Nurse said Father didn't like it very well, and maybe I _did_ remember that part, without really knowing it.
Anyhow, I never think of asking Father questions.
I asked the doctor first.

I thought maybe 't was some kind of a disease, and if he knew it was coming, he could give them some sort of a medicine to keep it away--like being vaccinated so's not to have smallpox, you know.

And I told him so.
He gave a funny little laugh, that somehow didn't sound like a laugh at all.