Kerr, and he'll make the best of it like other people. I wish I could
convince you. Don't distress yourself over the normal troubles of
normal people."

But Julia still worried on: "She looked so white and tired to-day;
she'd been carrying that great baby about round the shops, and she's
not strong yet."

"Can't the baby stay peaceably at home?"

"Then she's got to stay too. Where she goes the baby must go. She's
given up going out at all except just for her marketing."

"Well," said Rokeby, rubbing his head, "I don't know, I'm sure, what
you or I can do. We'd better leave it all alone."

"If I hadn't spent everything I had in the bank only yesterday for a
new suit I'd send her a baby-carriage to-morrow. It'll be three weeks
before I've put by enough again."

"Don't rob yourself," said Rokeby quickly, with a softening face.
"Look here, let me know what happens, will you?"

"About the perambulator?"

"Ah!"

"Will you be fairy godfather, then?"

"If you'd like me to."