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Now Lena detested babies as sticky and order-destroying vermin, but in

relief she said: "A baby? Oh, how lovely!"

"Come," said Mrs Lenox "The proper study of womanhood is baby" Lena

went out to find a very s condition,

steered up and down the hall by another be-capped ht to his rear petticoats, while Mrs Lenox trotted by his side,

pulling a woolly la

her skirts to be worried by a s hard that lay on the floor or that wiggled Mrs Lenox and

Miss Elton sat down on the floor to towsle and to be towsled a and frantic yelps from the puppy, while Lena

looked on and said: "Isn't he cunning?" and wondered whether she ought

to sit on the floor or not She wondered if this were indeed the

millionaire Mrs Lenox of who present at such and such "society functions", thus and

thus attired

Somehow Mrs Lenox, seated on the floor, with her hair over one eye,

disconcerted Lena randeur would have done She

felt as onecapers

Then the redoubtable lady juave a

final shake to her small son and said: "I dressed little Frank ood job? Dressing a baby combines all the pleasures of the chase with