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“To bring what up?” asked Abby, sharply. Her eyes looked as
small and bright as needles.

Julia regarded her with intense satisfaction. “What do women
generally bring up?” said she.

“I don’t know of anything they bring up, whether they have it or
not, except a baby,” retorted Abby, sharply.

Julia wilted a little; but her sister, Mrs. Glynn, was not
perturbed. She launched her thunderbolt of news at once, aware
that the critical moment had come, when the quarry of suspicion
had left the bushes.

“She has adopted a baby,” said she, and paused like a woman who
had fired a gun, half scared herself and shrinking from the
report.

Ethel seconded her mother. “Yes,” said she, “Miss Eudora has
adopted a baby, and she has a baby-carriage, and she wheels it
out any time she takes a notion.” Ethel’s speech was of the
nature of an after-climax. The baby-carriage weakened the
situation.

The other women seized upon the idea of the carriage to cover
their surprise and prevent too much gloatin