“She was angry with me for not giving her an abortion,” Wilbur Larch replied. “Good for you!” said the house officer. But Wilbur Larch failed to see how this was good for anyone. There was a widespread inflammation of the membranes and viscera of the abdominal cavity, the uterus had been perforated twice, and the fetus, which was dead, was true to Mrs. Eames’s daughter’s prediction: it had not been quick.
