CRAIG’S WIFE
11
Mrs. Craig
- But, nothing is going to happen, dear child. I haven’t the slightest doubt but that your mother will come through this little spell just as she’s come through all the others.
Ethel
- I don’t think the others have been as serious as this, though.
Mrs. Craig
- Listen, Ethel dear, I’ve seen your mother at least a dozen times at what I was perfectly sure was the point of death, and she’s always come around all right.
Ethel
- Well, why did Doctor Wood send for me, if he didn’t think it was serious?
Mrs. Craig
- Because your mother asked him to, I suppose, dear; just as she asked him to send for me. But he certainly couldn’t have thought it was so very serious when he suggested you come away with me.
Ethel
- It wasn’t the doctor that suggested that, Aunt Harriet, it was the night nurse,—I heard her tell him so. She said it upset Mother too much to see me, and if I were there she’d want to see me.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, that’s very true, dear; but you know how she cried when you came in. And there’s nothing in the world so upsetting to the heart as crying.
Ethel
- But, I should be there; it seems terrible to me now to have walked away and left Mother in that condition.
