The Insincerity of a Girl

"I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept," she said. "That's the best thing a girl can be in this world. A beautiful little fool." The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief,. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of Long Couch and she read aloud to him from the Saturday evening post. 10 o'clock, she remarked, apparently finding the time on the ceiling. Time for