7/10 You never saw such happy children in your life. Why, almost the only time they cried was when they had to go home at night!" Mary's eyes brightened at the memory of it. "Didn't your son's wife have a baby in the nursery, Mr.Edsol ?" "Two," he solemnly nodded. You couldn't imagine a woman standing up under overtime, for instance." "Oh, you shouldn't say that," said Mary earnestly, "because everybody knows that in the human family, woman is the only one who has always worked overtime." Here the third member of the committee muttered a gruff aside. "No use talking to a woman," said he. |