“Was it a girl or a boy?” she whispered to the nurse. “Another boy.”
The woman did not answer. In a moment the child’s nurse came back. She approached the bed.
“Master Philip never woke up,” she said. There was a pause. Then the doctor felt his patient’s pulse once more.
“I don’t think there’s anything I can do just now,” he said. “I’ll call again after breakfast.”
“I’ll show you out, sir,” said the child’s nurse.
