Evening Dress. Howells William Dean
Roberts: "Oh, if I could only stay and think for you, dearest! But I can't, and you must do the best you can. Do keep repeating it all over! It's the only way – "
Mrs. Campbell, from the door: "Agnes!"
Mrs. Roberts: "Amy, I'm coming instantly."
Mrs. Campbell: "I declare I shall go without you!"
Mrs. Roberts: "And I shouldn't blame you a bit, Amy! And if it turns out to be the grippe, Edward, don't lose an instant. Send for the doctor as fast as the district messenger can fly; give him his car fare, and let one come for me; and jump into bed and cover up warm, and keep up the nourishment with the whiskey; there's another bottle in the sideboard; and perhaps you'd better break a raw egg in it. I heard of one person that they gave three dozen raw eggs a day to in typhoid fever, and even then he died; so you must nourish yourself all you can. And – "
Mrs. Campbell: "Agnes! I'm going!"
Mrs. Roberts: "I'm coming! Edward!"
Roberts: "Well?"
Mrs. Roberts: "There is something else, very important. And I can't think of it!"
Roberts: "Liebig's extract of beef?"
Mrs. Roberts, distractedly: "No, no! And it wasn't oysters, either, though they're very nourishing, too. Oh, dear! What – "
Mrs. Campbell: "Going, Agnes!"
Mrs. Roberts: "Coming, Amy! Try to think of something else that I ought to remember, Edward!"
Roberts: "Some word to the girls when they come in?"
Mrs. Roberts: "No!"
Roberts: "About the children, something?"
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