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young persons I had ever met but she had little
heart, she was above all a poseuse, incapable
of loving anybody but herself. My companion
looked more bored than ever. Hoping for better
luck I told her I had spent the afternoon in the
children’s hospital in Chelsea, it had been a
revelation to me who was a frequent visitor to the
Hôpital des Enfants Trouvés in Paris.
She said she thought our children’s hospitals
were very good.
I told her it was not so, that the mortality
amongst French children inside and outside the
hospitals was frightful. I told her about the
thousands of abandoned babies dumped on the
provinces in the train des nourrices.
She looked at me for the first time with her sad
eyes, the hard lifeless expression in her face was
gone, I said to myself she was perhaps a
kind-hearted woman after all. In saying good-bye to
my hostess I told her that it was not a case
for me nor for Charcot himself, Doctor Phillips
was the man, her sister-in-law would be all right
when she had a baby.
John seemed pleased to see me but he looked
pale and thin as he sat by my side at the luncheon
table. Rosalie said he coughed a lot in the night.
There was a slight rise in the temperature in the
evening and he was kept in bed for a couple of
days. Soon he resumed the daily routine of his
little life, assisted in his usual grave silence at my
luncheon and was taken in the afternoon to Parc
Monceau by Rosalie. One day, a couple of weeks
after my return from London I was surprised to
find the colonel sitting in my waiting-room. His
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