‘I forgot to ask you, how was your night? How does your Gipsy woman come along?’ ‘I cannot answer for Mrs Boswell: the Caesarean section is no light undertaking, even without a hurricane. But if it can be fed, the child may live, the creature. It is, as you predicted, female; and therefore hardy. I was at a loss to know what to do with it at first.’ ‘There is the girl that waits on Mrs Wogan.’ ‘There is. But you will recall that she was transported for infanticide, repeated infanticide. She is a little eccentric where babies are concerned, and I could not think her quite a proper person.
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