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 nurseries. It makes all the difference to the little things.

[ kneels and opens the trunk, and begins to take out a child’s clothes.

Oh, the lovely little frocks! Did she make them?

[She kneels too.



But I don’t care much for baby frocks. The babies themselves are none the happier for them. It’s all show, really. And all these toys! I expect his daddy spoiled him.



But, of course men always give them presents above their age—they’re in such a hurry for them to grow up. We like them to take their time, the loves.

[She rummages.

Where’s his engine? Didn’t he love the puffer trains? But of course he never saw them. You’re so far from the railway station. What a pity! He’d have loved them so. Dick was so happy when I stopped his pram on the railway-bridge on my way back from the shops, and he could sit up and see the puffers going by.

[She pulls out toys.