The lady said, 'Get it?' I said, 'Sure! Dead easy.' She said,
'Can you take me?' I said, 'Glad to!'
"She said, 'That was the dreadfullest sight I ever saw. That child's
mother is going to know right now what kind of a nurse she is paying to
take care of her children. You come show me,' she said, so we went.
"'Will you come in with me?' she asked and I said, 'Yes!'
"Well, we rang and she asked pleasant to see the lady of the house on a
little matter of important business, so pretty soon here comes one of the
dimun-studded, fashion-paper ladies, all smiling sweet as honey, and asked
what the business was. My nice lady she said her name was Mrs. John Wilson
and her husband was a banker in Plymouth, Illinois, and she was in the
city shopping and went to the park to rest and was talking to me, when an
automobile let out a nurse, and two boys and a lovely little pink girl,
and she give the number and asked, 'was the car and the children hers?'
The dimun-lady slowly sort of began to freeze over, and when the nice lady
got that far, she said: 'I have an engagement.
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