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She ain't no doctor-woman." This from Dinney, who had the advantage of early acquaintance. "She's on'y a cuttin' roun' de street. Youse better not be smudgin' up her dress, Carrots gwan off, now! All o' youse gwan an' let de lady 'lone. Me 'n' Hunkie's de on'y ones as she wants roun'." Dinney and Hunkie escorted Gloria to the end of the street and back.
She turned to Gloria and said in her quiet way: "You shouldn't take it so hard Sal's falling. We get used to such things here." And she smoothed out Hunkie's dress as she sat down on the window-sill, there being but one chair in the room. "And then when you come right down to it," she said, "Sal will have the time of her life. I just came from the hospital.
Then by an inspiration she knew that the boy meant cream milk with the cream on. A sob rose unannounced in Gloria's throat as she looked again at the mite in the cart who would walk when his legs were stronger. "Who is the doctor-woman?" she asked; but as she asked the question she knew the answer and said, "Is she the District Nurse?" "Yes, she is. She's good to my mother, and Hunkie's the baby.
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